Renee McCoy

Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy is the HIV/Aids Program Manager of African Americans Reach and Teach Health Ministry.

Dr. McCoy has an extensive history of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and research dating back to the onset of the pandemic in 1981. She has worked in New York, Washington, D.C., Detroit, MI, and Seattle, WA. Before moving to Washington in 2009, Renee was the Director of HIV/AIDS Programs for the Detroit metropolitan area. She oversaw HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for the Detroit metropolitan area through the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. In Washington, she was the former co-pastor of Eastgate Congregational United Church of Christ in Bellevue, WA, the former Director of Public and Private Grants, and the former Director of Prevention Education at Lifelong AIDS Alliance in Seattle, WA. 

Dr. McCoy holds a doctorate in anthropology from Wayne State University. She has taught business and organizational anthropology, global health, and qualitative research methods. She is a medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research in the Detroit metropolitan area targeting hard to reach, high risk groups. Dr. McCoy is also an ordained minister who has served the spiritual needs of marginalized persons for over four decades.