Media Interviews & Freelance Writing: Jenelle Marie Pierce is an STI+ Sexual Health Educator, speaker, and freelance writer covering prevention, safer sex, and transmission risk; symptoms and testing; personal narratives, disclosure, and stigma. With over 7 years of professional experience in STI education, including intersectional origins of shame and stigma, cross-cultural implications for specific populations, and first-person narratives, she specializes in dismantling stigma by reclaiming STI narratives.
Curriculum Consultations, Guest Lectures, and Workshops: Want to ensure your curriculum is comprehensive, inclusive, accurate, relevant, and empathetic? Jenelle provides syllabus consultations as well as guest lectures and workshops to supplement your programs.
Sensitivity Review: Are you working on content about STIs or narratives about people with STIs? Jenelle offers sensitivity reviews of written, audio, and visual content to help ensure your stories are relevant and responsible.
Personal Consultations: If you have a personal situation you’d like help with – questions about risk, relationships, disclosure, etc. that are specific to your unique circumstance – Jenelle is always happy to work with you individually. Each consultation includes a strictly confidential audio/video recording of your consult and one email follow-up.
Jenelle offers 2 options for personalized consultations.
Option #1: One hour consultation through phone or video chat with email follow-up: $167
Purchase Option #2 in 4 Monthly Installments of $149 through PayPal here.
Online Static Content: Jenelle’s websites include over 350 comprehensive STI/STD articles, guides and fact sheets, advice answers, extensive external resource lists for each sexually transmitted disease, and a growing blog. Jenelle’s content is thoroughly researched and fact-checked for accuracy by her medical network and referenced among a large list of global sexual health educators and reference sites.
Interactive STI Services: Jenelle’s platforms are highly moderated to provide safe spaces that offer medically accurate, inclusive, empathetic, and pleasure-focused sexual health information. Jenelle also maintains an active presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, YouTube, & LinkedIn as well as hosting a podcast and responding in question and answer forums such as Reddit and Quora.
Referrals: Jenelle makes referrals to sexual/reproductive healthcare services and references such as: testing centers, hotlines, external forums, blogs, treatment options, educational books, and safer-sex products.
Other Outreach: Jenelle provides global outreach and education offline through tabling events, project collaboration, research, and clinician or support staff training. Additional outreach opportunities are provided through speaking engagements at colleges, universities, or community centers and conferences for students, parents, the general public, and to fellow sexual health educators.
Have Jenelle come speak for your group or at your event!
Sample Speaking Topics:
Overcoming stigma – history, approaches, coping
Intersectional origins of shame and stigma and cross-cultural implications for specific populations
The admin’s personal story (including herpes, HPV, scabies, and vaginitis)
Covering STIs in-depth: how they’re contracted, common symptoms
Safer-sex practices: which sexual activities expose someone to which STIs, ways to mitigate risk
STI myth vs. fact: common misconceptions and statistics
STI Interviews – stories from around the globe
Dating, disclosing, and overcoming stigma after an STI diagnosis
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Jenelle Marie Pierce (she/her/hers) is the Executive Director of Herpes.Education & The STI Project: Breaking the Stigma®; an Adjunct Professor; the Spokesperson for Positive Singles; and a Tri-Chair of the Communications Action Group at the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH). 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. Current bylines can be found in O.School, SELF, HepatitisC.net, Kinkly, PornHub's Sexual Wellness Center, and Allure. For fun, Jenelle stays active as a group fitness instructor and also spends time camping, snow shoeing, hiking, skiing, kayaking, growing things, running through sprinklers, and building sand castles. Learn more about her here, or find her on social media: Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Tumblr.
