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Oral History: Maria Hernandez
Organization: A.C.E.-Out (AIDS Counseling and Education), c/o
Park Slope Women's Shelter, 1402 8th Ave.,
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Date of Interview:1997
Maria Hernandez was a founding member of ACE
(AIDS Counseling and Education), an organization formed by a group of women
inmates of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to address the issue
of AIDS and women in prison. Ms. Hernandez worked as the director of A.C.E.-Out
until 1994, building both its funding base and its client service programs.
This project helps women to adjust to society after prison through offering
mentoring by ex-inmates, and assistance with housing and employment.
Interviewer: Tanya Radford , a doctoral candidate in English
at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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