The board of the Atlanta-based AIDS Survival Project recently announced the appointment of Molly A. Casey as ASP's new executive director. Casey replaces Jeff Graham, who led ASP for 10 years and is now its senior director of public policy.

"I'm very excited," Casey said of her new position. "HIV is the only disease people assign a moral value to, and that makes it that more challenging to get funding and keep it on people's radars."

Before joining ASP, Casey was program director for the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and, previous to that, worked for 15 years at the American Red Cross. While at ARC, Casey supervised the Health, Safety & Youth curriculum, which included adding an HIV/AIDS curriculum for schools. She also promoted HIV/AIDS employment anti-discrimination policies and implemented ARC's African-American HIV/AIDS program at one of seven U.S. pilot sites.

Board President Susan Cornutt said the board considers Casey's administrative experience as her most important asset. "We were looking for a specific skill set, qualities and characteristics," said Cornutt. "Now that we have two people [Casey and Graham] who are experts in their fields, we can do more advocacy work and more statewide, grassroots work. This is an incredibly exciting step for us."

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