Paula Donovan

Paula Donovan is an American AIDS activist and the co-executive director with Stephen Lewis of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and effective global responses to HIV/AIDS. In recognition of her work in HIV/AIDS advocacy, Ms. Donovan received the The Salem Award for Human Right and Social Justice in 2005 and an Alumni Humanitarian Award from Fairfield University in 2007.

Ms. Donovan previously served as a Senior Advisor in the office of the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and is a 20-year veteran of international development, women's rights and HIV/AIDS. In the early '90s, she worked at UNICEF and ran the global advocacy campaign for breastfeeding. Later, she became chief aide to UNICEF's deputy executive director, and spent four years in Kenya as East and Southern Africa's Regional AIDS advisor for UNICEF.

Education
Ms. Donovan earned both her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1977 and Masters in Corporate and Political Communications in 1988 from Fairfield University.