Marco, 29, moved to Chicago in 2004 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in clinical-community psychology at DePaul University. Marco has worked in the field of HIV prevention since 1998, in the United States and in Kenya. Currently, he works at Howard Brown Health Center, where he directs an HIV prevention research project for GBQ young men called My-Peeps.org.
In 2005, Marco began addressing an epidemic whose presence within LGBTQ communities is relatively ignored: intimate partner violence. As a volunteer psychotherapist with Howard Brown’s Violence Recovery Project, Marco developed a psycho-educational support group for people who have experienced same-gender IPV. Marco’s dissertation research will result in the creation of a same-gender IPV assessment tool intended for use among health- and service-providers.
Did you know? A California native, Marco tries not to “H8” too much on his home state. However, he dreams the Land of Lincoln will beat a certain “Golden State” to the altar.