Once Jobless With AIDS, She Now Helps Others

katia · September 15, 2007, 07:00:46 PM

Once Jobless With AIDS, She Now Helps Others

The New York Times
By Joseph P. Fried
9/15/2007

'Ms. Cassis, 45, a Bronx resident, said she became so sick that she had to leave her job as a coordinator of a life skills program for transgender people who have AIDS or are at risk of contracting it. She had brought empathy to the job, not only because she had lived with the human immunodeficiency virus. "I have been a person of transgender experience," she said. "I was born a male and transitioned into a woman."

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Once Jobless With AIDS, She Now Helps Others

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