Kelley Nicholson-Flynn

Kelley Nicholson-Flynn, the assistant head of school for operations at her institution and science teacher, recounts how growing up in a conservative, White suburb of Pittsburgh in a Catholic family prevented her from hearing much about the AIDS epidemic early on. It was only until college when she knew of someone with AIDS --- a hemophiliac friend who got the virus through a blood transfusion. She talks about how she's had to work to rewrite the narratives that she learned growing up, and how she has done so partially by listening to the story of her cousin who was a gay high-schooler in 1980s New York.