I have been employed with Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) since 2011 holding many positions including Senior Prevention Specialist, LGBTQ+ Youth Programs Manager, and Housing Case Manager. My current position is Lead Medical Case Manager supervising SAAF’s satellite office located in the Cochise County Health Department in Bisbee Arizona.I am inspired by radical love and supportive communities. I am passionate about advocacy and using my platform to create change in social systems meant to marginalize our most vulnerable individuals.
My name is Melody Glenn, MD MFA. I’m an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona, the medical director of several rural fire departments in Santa Cruz County, and the director of addiction medicine service at Banner-Tucson.In all of my clinical work, I strive to practice harm reduction, support patient self-determination and empowerment, and build more equitable structures that can uplift us all. As such, I am honored to be a part of Cochise Harm Reduction.
My passion for harm reduction stems from lived-experiences that have given me a deep understanding of the challenges faced by those navigating systemic barriers, homelessness, and substance use. These experiences have strengthened my belief in the importance of helping those who are vulnerable and our marginalized communities.
As a former Board Member of the Sedona Area Homeless Alliance, I worked to advocate for the unhoused population. As the founder of FLIP (Families with Loved Ones In Prison), I encouraged change, and offered a safe space for the support of those directly affected by the incarceration of a friend or loved one.
Today, I proudly serve as a Board Member of Cochise Harm Reduction, and serving the community in which I live. I believe that anything is possible when treated with compassion, respect, and kindness.
I am excited to support CHR in providing resources and connections to people who use drugs and those who are experiencing homelessness.
I have seen firsthand how harm reduction keeps people alive, as well as the harm that the prison industrial complex causes. I am an advocate for health equity and am committed to dismantling systems of oppression and creating systems that respect the personal autonomy and dignity of all people.
After working in prevention, treatment, and harm reduction, I am motivated by CHR’s commitment to centering people who have been impacted by the War on Drugs at all levels of the organization.
I often say “I wasn’t always this semi well adjusted great grandfather that I appear to be today.” And that’s true!
It’s a long story that involves my own chaotic drug use, incarceration, homelessness, working professionally with street and incarcerated addicts, professional radio journalism and community organizing with poor and low wealth people in urban and rural communities. Everyone deserves a chance and to be treated with human dignity while getting it!
While I did receive a Chemical Dependency Counseling Certificate at California State University, Sacramento. I believe that most of my education comes from the street and experiential learning over the years. I have 15 years experience working as a chemical dependency and dual diagnosis counselor and program manager in both the governmental and nonprofit sectors. I’ve also worked (for 15 plus years) as a radio journalist and newsroom director covering local, regional, state, national and international stories along with working doing community organizing in California, Idaho and Nevada and running a regional Americorp program. As I alluded to, I have personal experience with IV Drug Use, Homelessness and Incarceration with (currently) 40 plus years of recovery.
As the host/producer of “KBRP’s Weekly Magazine” I found out about CHR and had the ED on the show a couple of times. That led me to appreciate what the organization was doing in the community!
Personal Motivation? One of the best human beings I ever knew died as a result of Hep C that he contracted when he was a heroin addict. I was diagnosed as having antibodies to BOTH Hep C and B but somehow managed to not get either disease and (fairly miraculously) dodging the HIV bullet in San Francisco in the 1980’s. I was fortunate to be healthy enough to take advantage of the chances that life conspired to give me. I’d like to help others have the same opportunity!
Hobbies, passions, or favorite things? Still a “News Junkie”! Particularly related to the Middle East as a result of my previous reporting from there; Playing Congas and Percussion; Being a Septuagenarian “Gamer” and HUGE fan of “The Last of Us”!
Lu was introduced to ethos of harm reduction through personal navigation of the criminal (in)justice system, a crash course education in self-rescuing their partner from a potential deadly overdose with naloxone, and being raised loving people who used drugs.
Lu was introduced to the world of Harm Reduction after a drug charge and required community restitution hours. Lu volunteered with Bisbee Harm Reduction: handing out naloxone and sterile syringes during a period when needle exchanges operated in the “grey area” of legality in Arizona. Through this involvement, Lu recognized the transformative potential of a comprehensive harm reduction program in mitigating harm and inequity within their community.
After the preventable death of a close friend and colleague in the desert, Lu started the mobile harm reduction program that would come to be known as Cochise Harm Reduction today. This program was born out of a pressing need to “meet people where they’re at” and pay regular visits and consistent assistance to the most vulnerable members of their community.
Lu’s driving force lies in dismantling unjust systems of harm and dominance, while fostering community-oriented networks of care and solidarity. Their love for people who use drugs fuels their dedication to advocacy, a role they hold with deep honor and commitment in this community.
I come to CHR as a person with lived experience within the criminal justice system and chaotic substance use. This failing system is the exact reason why I center my time, both professionally and personally, around harm reduction.
Being a part of an organization that shares my values and desire for change, all while helping to support the very people within OUR community that the system continues to fail, is why harm reduction has my heart.
It truly is a privilege to be an advocate for change while empowering members of the community to identify what works for them.
I’ve been with Cochise Harm Reduction since 2022. I started as the Outreach Coordinator and over the last year, I’ve stepped into peer navigation, and I’m really proud to say I’ve just been promoted to our full-time Peer Navigator.
This work means everything to me because I’ve lived it. I know what it’s like to struggle with addiction. I know what it feels like to be judged, to feel stuck, to not know where to turn—and to finally have someone show up who sees you as a human being, not a problem or lost cause.
Getting into this field wasn’t easy. A lot of people looked at my past and didn’t think I belonged in a professional role. But I believe that lived experience is exactly what makes this work real. I’ve been there. And now, I get to help others find their way, just like someone once did for me.
I’m not here to fix anyone—I’m here to walk alongside them. To remind them they’re not alone, they’re not broken, they are loved just how they are! That’s what peer work is all about. It’s not about “fixing” someone it’s about giving someone the freedom to choose their own path and accepting and loving them through it!
My name is Bronwen Di Campli and I work as an Outreach Specialist for Cochise Harm Reduction.I have a history of drug addiction. It has been a challenge to say the least.
However, I am grateful for these hardships. It has helped me grow, expanded my empathy, and has given me a greater understanding of what other’s experiencing addiction go through.Beyond providing basic necessities I want to create bonds with the people we serve. Continue to create an environment where people feel comfortable, valued, and respected.
My goal is to help reduce the stigma that surrounds drugs and drug addiction through educating the community, informed communication, and art.
Through my work at Cochise Harm Reduction, I am driven by a strong belief in the power of change with compassion and community support. I am honored to be part of a team that is dedicated to making noticeable difference in the lives of others, and I am continuing to be a source of hope and empowerment for those we serve.
Tony has been working at CHR since 2021 helping run the Bisbee route and developing the Benson program. He brings a unique perspective living off and on the streets for the past decade and continues to work with peers to help better their lives.
I have dedicated my life to helping my fellow man. My mission is to be the person that I needed when I was unhoused. I come to CHR with 11 years of non-profit experience, specializing in food service/preparation. I love cooking nutritious meals and am so grateful to bring my talents and passion to CHR where I can do what I love and to be of use to my community
After many years of being a huge fan of the work CHR does in the community I grew up in, and after the past year as the CHR MSW intern, I am thrilled to step into my role as Special Projects Coordinator.
The journey that led me to this work has been both brutal and beautiful. Brutal because I have lost beloved friends to the war on drugs, experienced the cruelty of our so-called “criminal justice” system, and felt the desperation and stigma that come with being a person who uses drugs in our society. The journey was also beautiful because I have witnessed the incredible strength and resilience of people who use drugs, been held and kept alive by my community when systems failed me, and learned that through connection and compassion, so many possibilities can emerge.
As I step into this role, I am committed to continuing our mission of improving the lives of people who use drugs in rural communities. I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to work alongside this amazing team, who have already taught me so much about what it means to keep each other safe.
Hello my name is Samuel Bernard. After losing my mother to cancer, my life spiraled out of control and I fell into a life of heavy drug use and I became homeless for the first time in my life. Out of that darkness came a light that saved my life .Chr is so much more to me then just a career for me. Meeting Lu on outreach as a participant in the program changed my life and then again when I was offered an opportunity for employment with their organization. From volunteer to now full time employee I have got my life back on track. I am back into a place of my own and now have the chance to help give back to the people of my community and share not only my story but also give people the help that saved my life.
