"experienced all of Chicago from the deep poverty to the striving middle-class Black Chicago,"
"I just really realized that I [couldn't] go on anymore, hiding the truth from myself,"
"Hiding the truth from those who I love. If I am going to thrive in lif"
Andrea Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 2017 as the first out transgender African American elected to public office in the United States. She served as vice president and then president of the council, becoming the first out trans person to be a city council president in the country. She played a leadership role during the unrest after George Floyd's death and engaged in efforts toward police reform. Born in 1961 in Chicago, she experienced both deep poverty and middle-class Black neighborhoods, moved to Minneapolis for university in 1979, worked on Harold Washington's 1983 mayoral campaign, married and had a daughter in her 20s, and came out as a trans woman at age 30.
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