Pablo Moulden

As of the past over 10 years, Pablo has been a dedicated and passionate sexual health advocate, peer educator, and public speaker as someone living with HIV since 2009.

He has experience in having lived with HIV for thirteen years, worked as a public health professional in HIV prevention and education for over a year, almost a decade of volunteer work in sexual health peer education, and years of public sex-ed policy reform advocacy locally and statewide in Virginia as well as federally. Having reached 6,000 people over 150 presentations, his professional and lived experience informs all of his talks and community outreach to better inspire and educate his peers and the broader public.

Pablo Moulden was diagnosed with HIV at age 17 in 2009 while attending high school. Years later, he publicly disclosed his HIV-positive status and subsequently became a health advocate, peer educator, and public speaker on sexual health, healthy relationships, and HIV prevention.

Pablo is now 30 years old and has reached approximately 6,000 students, faculty, social workers, and activists around the country. He volunteered on the Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry's speakers' bureau for a year. At George Washington University (GWU), Pablo served on the opening plenary session panel of GWU's HIV Summit 2017 and on panels for Dr. Charles Samenow's human sexuality classes (invited seven times). He has been serving as the Director and a Co-Founder at the Virginia Coalition for Sex Ed Reform (VACSER) for over three years. He worked at NovaSalud Inc (LGBTQ+ and Latinx specialized HIV prevention nonprofit) as the Youth Program Coordinator and a Health Educator for over a year. He served on the community advisory boards of DC Center for AIDS Research and Whitman-Walker Health. He currently serves on the Alexandria Commission on HIV/AIDS and the Virginia Consumer Advisory Committee of the Virginia Department of Health.

Other involvements include having volunteered at La Clinica del Pueblo's LGBTQ+ youth center Empoderate. He has lead two teams for the DC Walk & 5K To End HIV that collectively raised $1,931 with over 23 team participants. He served on DC's Different Drummers (LGBTQ+ music ensembles nonprofit) board as an at-large director for a year and a half. Additionally, he served as Chair of the Arlington Young Democrats Health, Education and Environment Caucus. Pablo also testified before the Virginia House of Delegates Education Committee during the 2018 legislative session for the sex education reform Bill HB 159 to mandate a medically accurate curriculum. He plans to continue advocating for reform at the state level until legislation is passed and founded the Virginia Coalition for Sex Ed Reform to accomplish this goal while also advocating at the local level.

Pablo now lives in Arlington, Virginia where he works in music retail and continues is sex ed advocacy work at the Virginia Coalition for Sex Ed Reform serving as Co-Founder and Director.