Julie Davids is the Executive Director of CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project), a national HIV/AIDS policy, organizing and training organization with offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Providence, RI. CHAMP is dedicated to recruiting, training and mobilizing an independent and powerful HIV/AIDS movement in the United States, and ensuring the development of a broad and effective range of HIV prevention options and improved policies worldwide.

She is a founding member and former community organizer with Health GAP, which has successfully organized efforts to change U.S. trade and pharmaceutical industry policies that have blocked access to low-cost medication for people with HIV in poor nations and regions.

She is the former Director of Leadership Development and Advocacy for Philadelphia FIGHT, the largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS organization in Pennsylvania, where she co-founded Project TEACH (Treatment Education Activist Combating HIV), an innovative training and community education program for people living with HIV. As an active member of ACT UP Philadelphia since 1990, Ms. Davids focused on HIV treatment research advocacy and served on the Community Constituency Group of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group.

For two years, Ms. Davids served as Director of the Critical Path AIDS Project, founded by Kiyoshi Kuromiya, which provides Internet services to low-income people living with HIV and leads advocacy efforts on HIV/AIDS treatment and research issues.

Ms. Davids earned a B.A from Temple University and was a 2002-03 Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University.