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Andrea Jenkins@annapoetic ) wrote a moving tribute to Monica Roberts and her work putting trans voices and stories front and center throughout her impactful career.

MCC VP Andrea Jenkins: I have been recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It has impaired my physical ability to a certain extent. I’m clearly still mobile and ambulatory, but my lateral movement has been significantly impacted.

Minneapolis City Council Vice PresidentAndrea Jenkins: "The mental trauma or the mental stress created from what I would call community trauma or communal trauma is just as challenging and deleterious as actually suffering from those injustices yourself."

Minneapolis City Council Vice PresidentAndrea Jenkins told The Root exactly what she means when she and her fellow council members call for defunding the police:

Black LGBTQ leaders — including "Pose" star Dominique Jackson, lawmaker Andrea Jenkins and advocate Tiq Milan — joined NBC's "Pride and Protest" town hall.

The first black, openly transgender woman elected in the U.S. represents an area of Minneapolis near where George Floyd was arrested. “That’s where I live,” said andrea jenkins'>Councilwoman Andrea Jenkins, “at the intersection of LGBT politics and racial injustice.”

"People are desperate for change. People are fighting for change. People are willing to put their lives on the line for change." Andrea Jenkins, the first black, openly transgender woman to be elected to U.S. public office, talks about racial equity.

The Minneapolis councilwoman Andrea Jenkins, the first black, openly transgender woman to be elected to public office in the U.S., talks about racial equity, how poetry informs her work and where we go from here.

"People are desperate for change. People are fighting for change. People are willing to put their lives on the line for change." Minneapolis councilwoman Andrea Jenkins@annapoetic ) talks about where we go from here. 

“Reforms haven’t worked. And so, we have to reimagine what public safety looks like,” Minneapolis City Council Viceandrea jenkins'>President Andrea Jenkins says about the council’s plan to dismantle the police department.