<p>Dr. Jesus Ramirez‐Valles is a scholar, filmmaker, and an advocate of Latino and GLBT health. He is author of the award‐winning book, “Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS,” and of Queer Aging: The Gayby Boomers and the new Frontier in Gerontology, and creator of a documentary, Tal Como Somos/Just As We Are, on the lives of Latino gay men, transgender persons, and people living with HIV/AIDS. He was named one of the “Top Gay Latino Activists who Have Broken Boundaries” by the Huffington Post. Dr. Ramirez‐Valles has received awards from the National Institutes of Health and the Rockefeller Foundation. For more than twenty years he has worked in public health in both the United States and abroad in a variety of projects ranging from reproductive health, substance abuse to HIV prevention and economic development with women, youth, and gay male populations. Dr. Ramirez‐Valles is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the journal Health Promotion Practice. He was born in Mexico, obtained his doctoral and masters degrees from the University of Michigan.</p>