Lora Branch currently serves as the Director of the Office of Gay and Lesbian Health at the Chicago Department of Public Health. Ms. Branch has also served as the Director of Capacity Building. Training and Technical Assistance unit and as a Public Health Administrator responsible for the Coordination of Youth Programs citywide in the Department's HIV/AIDS Public Policy and Programs Division. Since 1991 she has written and produced a number of cable television programs and in 1999 worked with UPN-TV to create It's Not Over, winner of a local Emmy award for best public service announcement. As a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, Lora has consistently sought to develop public health messages that are creative, meaningful and accessible to all people in need.