Bryanna (she/her) is an attorney, thought leader, consutlant and policy advocate who resides in Houston, Texas. Recently, she served as the Policy Director at Lavender Rights Project. During her tenure, she organized and hosted two Black Trans Policy Convenings in Atlanta, Georgia, bringing together 20 Black transgender and gender-diverse policy and organizing professionals to strategize our resistance to the current administration. Ms. Jenkins earned her B.S. from Morgan State University, her M.A. from the University of Baltimore, and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. She also published “Birth Certificate with a Benefit: Using LGBTQ Jurisprudence to Make the Argument for a Transgender Person’s Constitutional Right to Amended Identity Documents “ in the CUNY Law Review. Before law school, Bryanna founded and led The Baltimore Transgender Alliance and organized the city’s first Baltimore Transgender Uprising March in 2015.