Mark Misrok
Mark Misrok, MS ED, CRC 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 25 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 board of directors, and is a member of the New York Statewide AIDS Service Delivery Consortium (SASDC). 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. He served as a member of the San Francisco Mayor's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities from 2001-2007, and as a member of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program Advisory Committee, San Francisco State University from 2002-2005.
Mark was honored as a KQED Local Hero as part of the public television station's celebration of LGBT Pride Month, June 2007. A resident of New York City since 2007, Mark completed the Hunter College masters program in rehabilitation counseling in June 2011, and is a frequent speaker about employment issues for people living with HIV/AIDS.
