Perry James Junjulas is the Executive Director of the Albany Damien Center, a HIV+ peer-led agency in Albany NY founded in 1988 that provides HIV prevention and care services in a comfortable, supportive environment for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. Since his AIDS diagnosis in 1995, Perry has worked to ensure a better quality of life for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS by providing advocacy, leadership, and programming that is preventing new HIV infections while helping individuals and families access the treatment and care they deserve. He has served as the Damien Center’s Director since 1999.

Perry is a graduate of Siena College and a 2010 graduate of the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program. He completed the MBA program at The College of Saint Rose in 2014. Perry served on the Governor’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force and is currently a member of the NYS AIDS Advisory Council, Board Co-Chair of the Albany Coalition on Homelessness, Board member of the Pine Hills Neighborhood Association, and member of the AIDS Advisory Council’s Ending the Epidemic sub-committee. He resides in Albany, New York with his husband, Bishop Tony Green, who is the Director of Pastoral Care and Volunteer Services at Ellis Medicine.