william owen - communications Director

Will Owen is S.T.O.P.’s Communications Manager. He previously served as the Agency Marketing Manager of The Kinetix Group, a New York-based healthcare marketing agency and consultancy. He has also contributed to various local news publications in Brooklyn and his native Washington, D.C., including Greenpointers and The Washington Blade, the oldest LGBTQ newspaper in the U.S.

In July 2020, Will graduated with distinction from Columbia University and the London School of Economics with a dual MA/MSc in International and World History. His thesis, research, and coursework focused on U.S., Latin American, and Caribbean relations during the AIDS crisis, specifically addressing the U.S. government’s incarceration of HIV-positive Haitian asylum seekers in Guantanamo throughout the early 1990s. He received his BA in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University in 2014.