About 

Emily Bass is a writer, activist, artist and historian who has has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Esquire, The Lancet, Ms., n+1, Out, POZ, Slice, and has received notable mention in Best American Essays. A lifelong social justice activist, Emily has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do Collective. To End a Plague, her book on America's war on AIDS in Africa (PublicAffairs Press) “must be on every US president’s table in the Oval Office to remind them of their commitment to continue foreign aid for good,” according to The Lancet. She has been a Fulbright journalism scholar in Uganda, and was the 2018-2019 Martin Duberman Visiting Research Fellow at the New York Public Library. Bass is a 2022-23 Culture/Push Associated Artist and a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee for her current work, The Dendron Project. A Manhattan native, Emily lives in Brooklyn with her family.