Krista Wright Thayer is the current Manager of Health Services at the Shelby County Health Department and former Director of Outreach and Prevention at Friends For All. She is a PhD student at the University of Memphis in the Urban Affairs and Public Policy program. She is on the board of the LGBT Chamber of Commerce as the Advocacy Chair, the secretary of the political action committee House of Memphis and is a member of the TN HIV Modernization Coalition. Her goals include the removal of barriers to care for everyone and a focus on stigma reduction. Please quote her as saying, “We all deserve joy!”