Linda Grinberg serves as President of the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research (FAIR), based in Los Angeles, is a prominent AIDS treatment advocate, and a freelance writer on HIV/AIDS treatment and advocacy issues. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors of Project Inform, a national HIV/AIDS information and advocacy organization based in San Francisco and is an Honorary Board Member of TAG/Treatment Action Group, based in New York.
Prior to becoming an AIDS activist, Grinberg served for over 20 years as
Chairman/CEO of the world's largest independent film news and stock footage
library, Grinberg Film Libraries, Inc., a film archive spanning the 20th
century, representing ABC Network News, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, HBO,
Path
and Paramount News, etc. Grinberg's responsibilities included oversight of
library operations in both New York and Los Angeles, her home base. In her film
career, Grinberg developed, produced and distributed documentaries for
television, cable and the home video markets.
Following her AIDS diagnosis in 1991, Grinberg sold the film library to dedicate herself full-time to HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy issues and founded a research foundation, FAIR, to help fund, facilitate and expedite innovative protocols. Personally frustrated with research obstacles and timely access to promising therapies, transformed Grinberg from a corporate executive into an AIDS activist, committed to funding cutting-edge research and making safe and effective treatments rapidly available. Grinberg has spearheaded several coalitions, bringing together diverse representatives of many prominent AIDS organizations and recently sponsored a multi-disciplinary research workshop on structured treatment interruptions. Grinberg has written several articles on lipodystrophy, drug toxicities, treatment interventions and other timely issues in publications such as POZ Magazine, GMHC's Treatment Issues, and AIDS Treatment News. She has previously served on the boards of other national HIV/AIDS organizations.