SANDRA L. THURMAN
                            Director
                 Office of National AIDS Policy



     Sandra L. Thurman was appointed by the President on April 7, 1997 as the Director of the
Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House.

     For more than a decade, Ms. Thurman has been a leader and advocate for people with
AIDS at the local, state, and federal levels.

     Most recently, Ms. Thurman served as the Director of Citizen Exchanges at the United
States Information Agency.  From 1993 to 1996 Ms. Thurman was the Director of Advocacy
Programs at The Task Force for Child Survival and Development at the Carter Center in Atlanta,
Georgia.  As Director, she focused on the global health concerns of children, including
immunization and the eradication of polio. 

     From 1988 to 1993, Ms. Thurman, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as the Executive Director
of AID Atlanta, a community-based nonprofit organization that provides health and support
services to people living with HIV/AIDS and offers an array of HIV prevention programs. 
Under her leadership, AID Atlanta, the largest and oldest AIDS service organization in the south,
tripled in size, and became a multimillion dollar, direct-service agency with 90 staff members
and more than 1,000 volunteers.

     Ms. Thurman was a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and of
the Georgia State AIDS Task Force, the Fulton County HIV Planning Council, and the Executive
Committee of Cities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR).  She has also served on the
Board of Directors of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition, AID Atlanta, Sisterlove, Inc., and
the Atlanta AIDS Interfaith Network, among others.  She is a recognized expert on AIDS issues
and has provided testimony before the United States Senate, the White House Conference on
HIV/AIDS, and the National Commission on AIDS.

                                                               Ms. Thurman earned a Bachelor's degree from Mercer University.