Rae Lewis ThorntonRae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy Award winning AIDS activist and renown social justice advo-cate. Rae received national acclaim for her story of living with HIV/AIDS in the Essence magazine December 1994 issue. The Smithsonian National Museum of AfricanAmerican History and Cul-ture has requested to catalogue her groundbreaking Essence magazine cover. As the face of HIV/AIDS, she has been featured in Glamour, O The Oprah Magazine, Woman's Day, Essence, Jet, Ebony, Emerge, Heart and Soul, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Trib-une. Rae appeared on television and streaming shows including, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Night-line, Dateline, BET, CNN, Vice News, HLN News, Huffington Post Live, and TV One.She is an ordained minister, award-winning blogger, author, and a tea connoisseur with a hand-made knitting and jewelry accessory line, RLT Collection. Rae received an Emmy Award for her television series, Living with AIDS, a first-person chronicle on WBBM, CBS in Chicago.Rae earned a Master of Divinity Degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. She received a distinguished alumnae award from Northeastern Illinois University, and the Scroll of Merit Award from the National Medical Association. She has written two other books, Amazing Grace: Letters Along My Journey and The Politics of Respectability. Read More Read Less