Joe Ramirez-Forcier

Joseph Ramirez-Forcier supports PRC as the Managing Director for PRC Workforce Development. Joseph is responsible for providing leadership in setting the direction of the PRC Workforce Development Program. He most recently launched the Getting to Zero HIV Workforce Development Services, Peer to Peer certificate Occupational Skills Training (Lift Up SF), SF Dreamkeeper Workforce Development services for the Black/African American Community for the Black Trans Community, Black Peer community services with the OEWD Health Care Academy program expansion. Prior to joining PRC, he was a Case Manager at ECS of San Francisco in the Tenderloin providing direct case management services, then as a Substance Use Counselor at Stepping Stone of San Diego. Prior to Joseph’s non-profit career, he worked for 20 years in technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in Product and Technical Marketing in the Telecommunications and Computer Technologies sectors for ROLM/IBM and the MCI Corporation. During this time he volunteered for 20 years at various organizations for people with HIV/AIDS.