David Dandridge is a community health worker who got his start in HIV activism as a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power [ACT-UP] in the early 1990s. He went on to serve as a hotline operator for the Saint Louis Effort for AIDS [now Vivent Health], as well as volunteering with Food Outreach and Planned Parenthood. Prior to joining Williams and Associates, he was a research assistant at Barnes Jewish Christian Hospital and a group facilitator for Diversity Awareness Partnership and served on the board of Abortion Action Missouri.