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Jenelle Marie Pierce

Jenelle Marie Pierce is the Executive Director of The STI Project: Breaking the Stigma®, the Founder of the herpes activists network, HANDS, and a Spokesperson for PositiveSingles.com. As an STI+ Sexual Health Educator and content creator, Jenelle has been dismantling stigma by reclaiming STI narratives® through awareness, education, and acceptance since 2012.

Jenelle also tri-chairs the Communications Action Group for the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH), and she is a member of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases (IUASTD), the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA), the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), and The Intermountain West HPV Vaccination Coalition.

Jenelle's work has been featured in popular TV, radio, and print outlets such as: The Washington Post, CNN, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Jezebel, Forbes, HuffPost Live, NPR, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Refinery 29, The Daily Mail, Bustle, and many more.

In her spare time, she teaches group fitness classes and spends time outdoors camping, snow shoeing, hiking, skiing, kayaking, growing things, running through sprinklers, and building sand castles. You can also find Jenelle on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, or Twitter.

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Articles by Jenelle Marie Pierce

Once you get past the stigma and understand that it could happen to you, it's easier to face the facts.

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Mono often borders the land of STDs and is placed into that confusing gray area as a result of STD stigma.

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Healthy is sexy. So is taking control of your sexual health.

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Sex often comes with some level of personal risk, even when there's no physical contact at all.

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When it comes to your sex life, savvy is sexy.

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