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Reed Bohn (he/they), joined the Virginia Center on Aging (VCoA) as Project Manager for the Elder Justice Learning & Research Hub. Reed is a LGBTQ+, anti-violence, and reproductive justice advocate with over 15 years of community experience. Prior to coming to the VCoA, they were the Project Empower Manager at VCU and the VCU Health System's Injury & Violence Prevention Program. He is an active volunteer with All Options and was a member of the Virginia Community HIV Planning Group from 2013 to 2020. Reed has attended and facilitated numerous education and outreach opportunities, and trainings, and has provided technical assistance services; in addition to receiving certifications in a variety of modalities. His formal education experience is as an abolitionist social worker and he is completing a Masters in Applied Public Health. To highlight the words of Lydia X. Z. Brown, American activist and writer: "Often, their most important work has no title, job description, or funding, and probably never will."