Office Staff

Responsible for directing all organizational activities, including advocacy, member group relations, public and government relations and new fund development. Also is principal spokesperson for the organization and is the key contact for the Board of Directors.

Ryan Conrad is a graduate of Concordia University's Interdisciplinary PhD program where his research focused on HIV/AIDS activist histories and the queer political imagination. Prior to joining the CAS he was a postdoctoral fellow at the AIDS Activist History Project at Carleton University. Before coming to Canada in 2011, Conrad worked in the non-profit sector with a handful of different organizations in his home state of Maine addressing issues related to mental health, LGBTQ2S youth, HIV/AIDS, racism, and rural poverty.