Collections by Michelle Brown WSG Trans Activist. Poltician Andrea Jenkins

She has been a performance artist, poet, and writer. She has also been known as a playwright, a curator, a visual artist, a spoken word artist performer, and public speaker. She was also the Trans Oral Historian for the Tretter Collection at the  University of Minnesota interviewing and collecting the oral history of over 150 members of the transgender community.  In 2017 she’s added a new position to her impressive resume – Councilwoman representing Minneapolis’s 8th ward and Vice President of Minneapolis City Council.

Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and the 46th largest city in the United States. With its smaller neighbor St. Paul,  Minneapolis makes up the Twin Cities, the 16th largest metropolitan area in the country. In this historic election she became the first transgender woman of color elected to a major city council in the country. She serves with Phillippe Cunningham, a transgender man elected at the same time to represent to the city’s 4th Ward.  

At its 110th annual convention, the NAACP passed three resolutions regarding the civil rights of the LGBTQ community. On the transgender community, the organization resolved to work with all its Units to work to support equal protection for transgender individuals so that all members of our community can live free of violence, shame, and discrimination. So far in 2019 twelve transgender women have been killed in the United States. 

As a Transgender activist Andrea Jenkins not only speaks about protection for members of transgender women and men but more representation and inclusion in all areas including politics.