TIICANN - Title II Community AIDS National Network

Eric Camp Bio

In his "previous (pre-AIDS) life", Eric was the Director of Operations at the Arkansas Radio Network and a reporter at KARN in Little Rock. Since 1991, he has served on numerous boards, including the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task Force,

the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) of Arkansas, the Arkansas Community Planning Group for HIV Prevention, the Arkansas Association of People With AIDS, and the Arkansas HIV Services Planning Council. He now works as the volunteer chair of the Arkansas ADAP Working

Group, and as an educator and public policy director for Positive Voices, an Arkansas HIV+ Membership organization.

In the early 1990s, Eric used his radio background to co-found the “Queer Frontier”, “Positive AIDS Connection,” and “Choices” weekly radio programs. He has spoken in AIDS Awareness Assembly Programs in over 100 Arkansas public school districts, and helped produce several AIDS-related

programs on the Arkansas Educational Television Network. He has served frequently on the host team of RAIN’s "Heartsong" retreats (spiritual retreats for Arkansans with HIV). For eight years he organized the effort to erect the Arkansas World AIDS Day Mock Cemetery, which contained a

four-foot high "marker" for each of the 1,500+ Arkansans known to have died from AIDS-related complications at the time. Eric has assisted in the filing of two Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits seeking to correct discriminatory actions against Arkansans with HIV.

Eric founded, chaired, and lobbied for the Arkansas AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Working Group. In 2001, this statewide volunteer organization secured Arkansas’ first state contribution ($ 660,000) for HIV-related medications for Arkansas’ AIDS Drug Assistance Program.

His honors include: the 1993 RAINbow Award from the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network of Arkansas; the 1994 Drew Toon “Fear No Queer” Activism Award from the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task Force; a 1994 "Compassion Award" from the Arkansas AIDS Foundation; a 1997 J. C. Penny Golden Rule Award;

a 1998 World AIDS Day tribute from the Arkansas Educational Television Network, the 2001 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award from Arkansas’ Black Community Developers, and the Grand Marshall of the 2001 “Rodeo in the Rock,” and a 2004 Dr. Estelita Quimosing AIDS

Leadership Award from the second annual Tri-State HIV Conference in Little Rock.