Randy Allgaier

Randy Allgaier has been working in community organizing and non-profit administration since 1992. In 1995 he became the Director of the HIV Advocacy Network in the Public Policy Department at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation . After living with HIV for more than 15 years, Randy developed pneumocystis pneumonia and retired in 2000 in order to care for his health.

Randy was a founder and served as the Interim Executive Director (1998-99) of the California Alliance for Pride and Equality- renamed Equality California - California's lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender state level advocacy organization .

Randy currently serves on the HIV Health Services Planning Council (HHSPC) of San Francisco , San Mateo and Marin Counties and co-chaired the Council from 2004-06. He represents the HHSPC in the Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR) Coalition. In 2006 he joined the San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Counci l.

In 2002, Randy began working on Medicare issues for people living with HIV/AIDS, one of the first HIV/AIDS policy advocates in the nation to work on this issue, and wrote the first comprehensive paper on the subject for the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA).  Randy continued his Medicare advocacy work through the implementation of Medicare Part D.

Randy has served on a number of non-profit boards including Shanti (1994-96); Human Rights Campaign (1997-00) and served as the President of the Board of Pets Are Wonderful Support (2000-04).