Christine & I shot interviews with high school girls, college women, professors, beauty and barbershop owners and their clients, women with AIDS, community organizers, homeless women and prostitutes. The central question of this documentary is "Why do African-American women have a disproportionately high rate of HIV/AIDS than their Latina, Asian and Caucasian contemporaries?"
This video garnered the LAHPTU $250,000 from Pfizer who then partnered with the NAACP to distribute the video as a community outreach program. The program is still being used across the country in schools, hospitals, community centers, beauty parlors, homes, anywhere women could come together and empower themselves against this deadly disease.
WOMEN LIKE YOU earned Pfizer several awards including:
Winner - Corporate Social Responsibility Award Community Affairs
PR News CSR Awards
March 2004
Recognizes leadership in developing innovative corporate social-outreach programs.
Crystal Obelisk for Social Responsibility
Foundation of Women Executives in Public Relations
November 2005
The Foundation of WEPR created the PRism AwardTM in 2002 to promote the role of strategic communications in raising awareness of and addressing social needs. Symbolic of a multi-faceted prism, the award honors companies that have a history of supporting multiple creative and responsible outreach programs and policies that serve to better society.