TAB: Board Chair Sarah Gluckstern Out Loud on Nonprofit!

04 Feb TAB: Board Chair Sarah Gluckstern Out Loud on Nonprofit!

The 2023 Telluride AIDS Benefit (TAB) begins Thursday, February 16 and February 17 with the Student Fashion Show at Telluride’s Palm Theater. It ends Monday, February 27, with the ever-popular designer sample sale.

For a history and event overview, go here.

Can’t attend? Donate here to help “Fight. Fund. Educate.”

For all tickets, go here.

Go here for more about TAB.

When the earliest cases of AIDS appeared in 1981, nobody could have predicted the scope and reach the disease would have. Though we have seen many medical advances in the HIV/AIDS field, taking AIDS from being an untreatable condition to HIV becoming a chronic, manageable illness with the right medications, the world is still facing an future in which there will still be many more infections and deaths.

Bringing the pandemic home, TAB was founded in 1994 to help a local friend and very talented fabric artist in the Telluride community named Robert Presley. He was battling the disease and finding it difficult to pay his mounting medical bills. But what Presley wanted was to help others facing the same challenges he was facing.

Robert Presley died in 1997 from causes related to HIV/AIDs, but his selfless wish came true: the nonprofit he inspired, TAB, continues to help individuals and families dealing with HIV/AIDS on the Front Range all the way to sub-Saharan Africa through a growing list of beneficiaries. Through the discretionary (read unrestricted) funds TAB raises annually these nonprofits are able to support AIDS services for individuals and families alike.

For more about the TAB and its Board Chair, Sarah Gluckstern, listen to the podcast below:

Sarah Gluckstern, more:

Sarah Gluckstern, TAB’s Board Chair. Photo credit: Kristen White, Scenic Shots by Kristen.

Sarah Gluckstern has has worked in the HIV and AIDS field for 25 years. She has been involved with the Telluride AIDS Benefit since 2015, stepping into the Board President role in 2021.

Sarah found her calling to join the fight against HIV when she was just a teen. Watching Michael Palm – yes, the very same man whose name graces that Telluride venue and her father’s business partner and friend – valiantly battle the disease until his death in 1998 inspired Sarah to battle HIV/AIDS in her own way, on whatever fronts she could.

Sarah holds a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley. Her work has taken her to many corners of the HIV world, including testing, counseling, educational outreach, clean-syringe exchange programs, global public policy and fundraising.