"Never risk anything you can't afford to lose."
- Mary S. Jones

Mary S. Jones first and foremost is an educator and speaker who has assumed the challenge of leading individuals to the threshold of their mind. She says, “I can give you all the information I have within my grasp, but I cannot give you my understanding”. You must take the information, process it and make a decision. Mary warns, “Be mindful the decisions you make in one moment, which can define you forever”.

As a highly motivated and dedicated professional, Mary has been a key catalyst for change in the delivery of health care messages and the empowerment of individuals around the world; she is a leading authority in HIV/AIDS education outreach and prevention programs and has developed creative culturally sensitive mass media campaigns to promote the availability of educational services, testing, and care for individuals and families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

A qualified consultant on health care issues, Mary designs and conducts training programs for health care professional and lay persons. She is in great demand as an evaluator of public and private education programs on HIV/AIDS and team building within communities and organizations.

Born and reared in the Mississippi Delta, Mrs. Jones is amply qualified to lead the campaign for the development and dissemination of educational materials and messages. A consultant and technical assistant expert, Mary worked with colleges/university, community development programs/ agencies, substance abuse centers designing training program, evaluation instruments, and needs assessment tools.

Certified in Total Quality Management, Street Outreach, Client Center Counseling, Mary has earned certifications in HIV/AIDS Education from the American Red Cross, Meharry Medical College and Centers for Disease Control.

Mrs. Mary Jones has earned a Bachelor Degree: Community Health Education and Safety and a Masters of Arts: Human Behavior and Management from the University of Memphis and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

Mary is empathetic to the plight of persons with HIV/AIDS as an outward signal of her commitment to the cause to bring dignity to the reality of man’s inhumanity to man, she designed a panel on the AIDS Memorial Quilt which has been displayed all over the world. She has further demonstrated her commitment by serving as a member of Tennessee HIV Prevention Community Planning, Regional Advisory Committee, Memphis AIDS Council for Education, Women Health Initiative, and Baby Love, a rehab program for women.

In April 2007, Mary went to Ghana and Togo West Africa to coordinate education, testing, and develop possible partnerships for long term care in the Volta Region of West Africa. Partnering with Amazing Grace Gospel Church International, Mary Jones and her interpreter Bishop Issac Akorli were able to educate individuals in four remote villages and the City of Aflao in Ghana and Lome, Togo. The positive feedback and response was overwhelming thus creating a need to acquire additional support and resources. Mary met with local doctors and leaders such as a pharmacist in Aflao, the head Doctor over the Aflao hospital, and the Director of the West African Aids Foundation to adequately assess how resources and services can be intergraded to maximize education, testing, and care. This project will require many future trips and networking with additional agencies world-wide including the World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control, and the United Nations.

Mary Jones has used her gifts of sewing to open the Grace and Mary Vocational and Training Center located in Aflao, Ghana West Africa. The vocational school was started with 18 sewing machines and four qualified instructors were selected by Mary and a team of evaluators. The first 18 month class started May 2, 2007, and is designed to give individuals marketable skills in tailoring.