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A busy college student
helps MJAC's fight
against AIDS.

JENNIFER L. MATTLER
Special to The Jewish News

Music's average
I T ulia work
week is any-

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The 20-year-old
spends two days a week going
to college, two days as an
employee of the Michigan
Jewish AIDS Coalition and
one day as a nanny for a 2-
year-old and a 6-year-old.
Somehow, she manages to
juggle her busy week and still
have time for a social life.
Music began to volunteer
with MJAC during her junior
year at West Bloomfield High
School, where she was a four-
year varsity swimmer and
team captain.
"Somebody from high
school said they [MJAC]
were having a speaker's
training," said Music.
Having had some prior
exposure to public speak-
ing she went to the session
and "it was really fun, so I
just kept coming back."
Last September, MJAC
offered Music a job.
She and other MJAC
employees and volunteers
educate people about HIV

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Julia Music's schedule

includes teaching — teens to

60-year-olds — about sexually

transmitted disease,

and AIDS by presenting MJAC's
"Choose Life" curriculum. She also
leads programs like HIV 101, an
AIDS Quilt presentation and edu-
cational activities with students.
Presentations range from giving
people basic knowledge about HIV
to showing how to correctly use
condoms.
Music says there is a lot of "trial
and error" in knowing what to say
to different groups of people. She
has talked to seventh-graders and

60-year-old adults while speaking
to approimately five groups each
month.
"Older people are more candid
than people in their 20's," Music
said. Discussing sex and sexually
transmitted diseases within large
groups has never been embarrassing
to her.
Music is working towards a
degree in language arts and elemen-
tary education from Oakland
University. She hopes to teach

4/9
1999

Detroit Jewish News 93