Dr. Paul Zeitz

Dr. Paul Zeitz is a physician, epidemiologist and tenacious award-winning advocate for global justice and human rights with over 35 years of advocacy, campaigning, and movement-building experience.  To respond to the challenging times we are living through, Dr. Paul Zeitz launched a podcast (and forthcoming book) called Revolutionary Optimism, an infectious, contagious, self-created way of thinking and living on the path of love where you unleash your personal power. Zeitz is the initiator of a new movement building platform called #unify, that aims to catalyze a transformation to new social, economic, and political systems with “love at the center” for our collective repair, justice, and peace. During 2020-23, Zeitz co-founded the Brave Movement and Keep Kids Safe, movements committed to ending childhood sexual violence, driven by his lived-experience as a survivor of familial childhood sexual violence at the hands of his father. Dr. Zeitz serves as a co-convener of the U.S. National Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Movement. Zeitz worked for the Foundation for Climate Restoration during 2019-20 where he contributed to the initial visioning of the Global Carbon Removal Partnership.  Zeitz worked for the Obama and the Trump Administrations from 2014-2017 as the Director, Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, in the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in the U.S. Department of State, where he worked with global leaders and helped catalyze the launch of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and the Accelerating Childrens Treatment (ACT) initiative. Previously, he founded and served as the Executive Director of the Global AIDS Alliance from 2000-2011 that helped generate the political will to launch and sustain the PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.  Dr. Zeitz is the author of two books: Waging Justice (2018) and Waging Optimism (2020). Zeitz serves on the Board of Directors of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal and he is living a path of love under the banner of “Love at the Center,” led by Rabbi Shefa Gold.  Married for over 31 years, Paul and his wife Mindi are the proud parents and grandparents of 5 sons, 2 daughters-in-law, and 2 grandchildren.