Aces serves as a project manager focusing on legislative, policy, and administrative advocacy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Illinois. Working closely with the Getting to Zero IL initiative, he focuses on the efforts to increase access to HIV prevention and treatment services and supports, including implementation of Rapid Start interventions across the state. In this role, Aces is excited to witness community members, throughout the state, take ownership of the Getting to Zero IL initiative, and support major legislative wins in Springfield!
As a social worker by training, Aces has direct service experience in education, child welfare, and migrant aid which informs his policy advocacy work. Aces previously worked as the Economic Security Policy Fellow at Heartland Alliance, where he advocated for legislative and administrative intervention regarding the TANF and SNAP program. Aces holds a Master of Arts in Women Studies and Gender Studies and Master’s in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago.
