A special highlight of the World AIDS Day events presented by World AIDS Day Detroit this Dec. 1 is the visit Jeanne White-Grinder, mother of Ryan White, will pay to Detroit. Ryan White (1971-1990) famously contracted AIDS after receiving a contaminated blood treatment for his hemophilia. White was expelled from school because of the rampant ignorance about HIV/AIDS at the time and, as a result, became a poster child for raising awareness of the disease during the late 1980s. White's mother, White-Grinder, founded the national nonprofit Ryan White Foundation in 1993, which raised millions of dollars in donations until it closed in 2000. More information on her work can be found at http://www.ryanwhite.com.
White-Grinder will first be the special guest of the Fourth Annual World AIDS Day Detroit Mayors Breakfast at 8 a.m. Tickets for the event are $75. The breakfast will be at the Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway St., Detroit. For more information, call 313-757-1733 or visit http://www.wadbreakfast.eventbrite.com.
At 11:30 a.m. on the Detroit Opera House's Main Stage, White-Grinder will be the keynote speaker for the Ryan White Story and Youth Symposium. For more information on this event, check out http://www.worldaidsdayus.org.
Jeanne White Visiting Detroit
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