Micah Lubensky, Ph.D

Participant Engagement Director, PRIDEnet

Micah Lubensky, Ph.D, has always held a deep passion for and dedication to social justice for sexual and gender minority (SGM), racial/ethnic minority, and low-income communities. These passions helped motivate his graduate education and manifest his career as an applied social psychologist.

After completing his doctorate, Micah spent almost 10 years at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, working predominantly with low-income African American SGM communities across the San Francisco Bay Area. His efforts focused on community education around HIV risk and holistic well-being, advocacy for increasing health resources specific to HIV and holistic health broadly, and building and sustaining African American SGM community.

Before arriving at The PRIDE Study, he also worked for the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (now called M-PACT). At M-PACT, Micah managed a global consortium of 10 regional and global networks of advocacy organizations that served SGM communities in resource-poor locations around the world (essentially everywhere except Western Europe and North America). There, Micah coordinated the consortium to harmonize efforts on HIV and human rights policy advocacy, HIV health resources, and political activism by SGM community members around the world.

Micah arrived on The PRIDE Study / PRIDEnet team in 2016 as the Program Manager. He is now the Participant Engagement Director, where he focuses his efforts on tracking and improving the Participant Experience in The PRIDE Study, in order to maximize long-term participant retention.