Ramon Velasquez

Ramon Velasquez is a leader in VOCAL New York (formerly the NYC AIDS Housing Network), a grassroots membership organization led by low-income people who are living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, drug use and mass incarceration. He has three decades of experience organizing for inmate’s rights both inside and outside prison walls in New York, and is currently working on VOCAL-NY’s campaign for jobs, housing and voting rights for parolees.