Dafina Ward is coordinator of the Alabama Community AIDS Fund for Aids Alabama, headquartered in Birmingham. In this capacity, she manages the development of a statewide fundraising campaign
in partnership with the National AIDS Fund. An attorney by training, Ward has practiced law in Birmingham and served as a legal intern at the
Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery and with a private firm in Philadelphia. She has actively participated as a consultant or advisor to
the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts. She received a
B.A. with honors from Clark Atlanta University and a J.D. from Temple
University School of Law.