Laura McTighe began work on HIV and prison issues over ten years ago in the Philadelphia restorative justice and AIDS activist movements, serving as the founding Director of Prison Services for Philadelphia FIGHT and co-creator of TEACH Outside, a leadership program for people with HIV who are recently released from prison. In her research and organizing, Laura continues to focus on building community-led responses to address HIV, imprisonment, and intersecting social justice issues. She earned her Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and is completing a manuscript exploring HIV/AIDS, gender justice and economic justice through the stories of Muslim women living with HIV in the United States and South Africa.