Mark Misrok

Mark Misrok was the Director of Client Services and Community Programs, Employment Services, at Positive Resource Center (PRC) in San Francisco through June 2007. Mark has been living with HIV for more than 20 years, and began his own vocational rehabilitation activities with Positive Resource Center first as a client and then as a volunteer in 1992. He became the Program Director at PRC in 1995, overseeing the development of PRC's vocational rehabilitation, employment and career counseling, computer training, job placement, small business development and community partnership programs.

He currently serves as President of the National Working Positive Coalition, and served as a member of the San Francisco Mayor's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities from 2001 - 2007. Mark is the co-founder of the HIV Employment Services Network, a Bay area group supporting mutual education and information for service providers, and served as facilitator from 2001 - 2007.

Mark was honored as a KQED Local Hero as part of the public television station's celebration of LGBT Pride Month, June 2007.  He now resides in New York City, enrolled in the Hunter College masters program in rehabilitation counseling, and is a frequent speaker about employment issues for people living with HIV/AIDS.