A full-time teacher, wife, and mother, Julie White of Centennial, CO, has also worked on a daily basis to ensure impoverished HIV positive women and their families are supported in Chennai, India. After traveling with the Center in 2006 to India, she created One Mother, an economic empowerment program that employs HIV-positive women at a fair wage to make quilts, scarfs, placements, etc. from used saris. Julie tirelessly markets and sells their products in the USA.

Additionally, she engaged Bethany Lutheran Church in raising funds to purchase equipment used to conduct eye clinics for persons living with HIV who experience a loss of vision, requiring glasses & cataract surgery. The Board of Directors of the Center for Health and Hope cites Julie’s “practical humanitarianism” in honoring her as the 2015 “Hero of the Year.”