Tony Christon-Walker

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Tony D. Christon-Walker (born c. 1967 in Birmingham) is director of prevention and community partnerships for AIDS Alabama and co-founder of Birmingham Black Pride.

Christon-Walker learned that he was HIV-positive in the mid 1990s. He managed the

In January 2021 he opened AIDS Alabama's PrEP clinic for prevention treatment at El Centro/The Hub on 7th Avenue South in Lakeview.

In 2014 Christon-Walker was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. He was treated successfully at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta, Georgia and volunteers as a patient mentor there. He was invited to participate in a White House event marking renewed effort to fund a "Cancer Moonshot" research program in February 2022.

After Sheila Tyson resigned from the Birmingham City Council in November 2018 to be sworn into the Jefferson County Commission, Christon-Walker was one of sixteen applicants for the vacant District 6 seat. Crystal Smitherman was appointed. In the 2021 Birmingham municipal election Christon-Walker qualified for the District 6 seat on the Birmingham Board of Education, but withdrew. Leticia Watkins won that election.

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Publications

  • Christon-Walker, Tony (2020) Walking in Truth: Fatherhood. self-published. ISBN ‎9798654538789

References

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