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"LADY AUTHORIST WITH A PURPOSE"

DeVondia Regina Roseborough, aka "The Traveling Advocate" is a 37-year-old native of Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a single mother of two daughters. She is determined and motivated publicly expressing the effect and affects of HIV/AIDS globally. Her message is heartwarming not just based on facts but from a personal context. On December 9, 2003, with a T-cell count of nineteen, she learned that she had AIDS. During her hospitalization of twenty-three days, she healed spiritually and given a directive from God. The directive was to convey that God’s love is for all inclusive of those with HIV and AIDS. She has furthered her passion in her self-published debut entitled, "Put it on Paper." The nonfiction memoir describes her life before HIV and after AIDS. Her memoir is a personal journey of her self-esteem challenges and the price of yearning to love. Her memoir dissects the pros and cons of her personal motto, ‘A PERSON WILL TAKE YOU AS FAR AS YOU ALLOW THEM TO.” In addition to her newly released memoir, she is the founder of The Rasberrirose Foundation, a 501c (3) nonprofit organization whose focus is to minister to teenage girls aged 10-18. The Rasberrirose Foundation birthed from attending Central Piedmont Community College and the University of Phoenix, serving over eight years as a Director and Team leader for the YWCA of the Central Carolinas, a member of Toastmasters. She trained under the United Way of the Central Carolinas Speakers Bureau and Metrolina AIDS Project Speakers Bureau being a member of New Covenant Bibleway Church, and volunteering in various sections of Charlotte. She encourages the vision by continued trainings in HIV/AIDS by successfully completing HIV/AIDS Research training in New Jersey, PETS, ACRIA Training; and LEAP training. Because of her passion for youth, the Foundation’s motto is, “To positively impact the mind, body and soul of young ladies 10-18, with a focus on HIV/AIDS prevention.” She has had the honor of meeting Fantasia Barrino, Stedman Graham, Michael Baisden, Star Jones, Brentson Buckner, J.L. King and expressed to Magic Johnson that she is "Female Magic." In addition to meeting prominent figures featured in the Charlotte Observer, Creative Loafing, Charlotte Post, Voices and The Showcase magazines, Charlotte Housing Authority’s Spokesperson for “Moving Forward” Campaign, The Story W/ Dick Gordon and various newscasts. In April of 2005, awarded, volunteer of the Year from the Metrolina AIDS Project, she is an active member of the Ryan White Advisory Council, member where she currently serves on the Community Advisory Board and Conducts College tours with No Limit Larry & the Morning Maddhouse of WPEG Power 98. DeVondia received December 2008; nomination from the Tom Joyner’s Morning Show Hardest Working HIV/AIDS Traveling Advocate. DeVondia received an added testimony, that the virus is undetectable in her body! She conveys daily that AIDS is not an obstacle because it has brought her closer to The Rock-GOD.