Suttlepoints
Transforming Lived Experience into Leadership, Strategy, and Systems Change
Suttlepoints is a curated resource hub connecting analysis, lived experience, advocacy tools, and strategic insight across public health, policy, and community-based work. It is where ideas, practice, and purpose meet—designed to support learning, reflection, and action.
The Hub is organized by function, not chronology. Writing, media, and resources are grouped according to how they are meant to be used—whether to document lived experience, build leadership capacity, inform policy strategy, or support ethical public health practice.
The Five Pillars
The Hub organizes content across five core pillars:
Ending HIV Criminalization
Policy- and systems-focused resources examining HIV criminalization as a legal and public health failure, and outlining pathways for reform.
Public Health & Human Rights
Analysis exploring how law, health, and human rights intersect—centering institutional responsibility, equity, and accountability.
Leadership & Capacity Building
Trainings, tools, frameworks, and coalition-building resources designed to equip advocates, practitioners, and leaders to act within systems.
Storytelling & Media
Archived narratives, interviews, and reflections that document lived experience and movement history. These materials are preserved as record, not requirement.
Higher Education & Mentorship
Teaching, learning, and leadership development work connected to higher education and mentorship, growing intentionally over time.
Across all five pillars, the Hub reflects my commitment to translating lived experience into practical insight—supporting strategy, leadership, and more ethical public health responses without relying on repeated personal disclosure.
Panel Discussion: Centering Black Voices: Building an HIV Decriminalization Coalition Rooted in Racial Justice
A coalition-building conversation that examines how centering Black leadership and lived expertise creates durable strategies for ending HIV criminalization.
A Panel Commemorating Johnny L. Baily, Ph.D - Lemon Project Spring Symposium: Healing Ourselves: Black LGBTQ+ Community Making in the Eras of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19
A community-centered panel examining how Black LGBTQ+ people build healing, belonging, and collective care as acts of leadership and survival.
Podcast Episode: HIV in Black Life — Then, Now, & Next — SisterLove, Inc. Visible & Unseen
A systems-level conversation examining HIV in Black life across history, current realities, and future possibilities—centering equity, leadership, and accountability.
Leadership Forum: Native Son Black Gay Leadership Forum 2023 — Creating Change in a Changing World
A leadership forum examining how Black gay leaders navigate change, build power, and advance justice in shifting social and political conditions.
Federal Roundtable: HIV is Not a Crime — Legal, Health & Equity Considerations
A federal public health roundtable examining HIV criminalization through legal, health, and equity lenses to support evidence-based systems reform.
Policy Roundtable: Revolutionary Health Live — HIV Criminalization (Part II)
A continuation of an interdisciplinary policy discussion examining HIV criminalization through legal, public health, and equity frameworks.
Policy Roundtable: Revolutionary Health Live — HIV Criminalization (Part I)
A multi-disciplinary roundtable examining HIV criminalization through legal, public health, and equity frameworks to support evidence-based reform.
Conference Talk: Influence Nation Summit 2019 — Opening Speaker Robert Suttle “Change is a Marathon, Not a Sprint”
A leadership conversation on sustaining social justice work over time—framing change as a marathon that requires strategy, resilience, and collective accountability.

