Andrea Jenkins
Minneapolis City Council Member, Ward 8; Council President, 2022-2023; Oral Historian, Transgender Oral History Project, University of Minnesota; Poet
Andrea Jenkins is a politician, poet, and oral historian in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2017 she became the first Black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States, winning a seat on the Minneapolis City Council, where she later served as council president. Before her election she curated the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota, recording the life stories of…
About
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Heritage
- African American
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Languages
- English