Imara Jones

Award-Winning Journalist, Thought Leader, Content Creator & Founder of TransLash Media

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Imara Jones Biography

Imara Jones, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces content to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US. She was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People on the planet in 2023. As part of her work at TransLash, Jones hosts the "TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones," which received the 2023 Outstanding Podcast Award from GLAAD; as well as the investigative, limited series, "The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality" which received the Excellence in Podcasting Award from the National LGBTQ+ Journalists Association.

Jones is also the first trans person to ever receive an award from the National Black Journalists Association, having garnered the Journalist of Distinction Award in 2022. Also in 2022, Politico named her as one of the 40 power players at the intersection of race, politics, and policy in the United States. In 2020 Jones was featured on the cover of Time Magazine as part of its New American Revolution special edition. In 2019 she chaired the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on Gender Diversity with over 600 participants. Jones has been featured regularly in The Guardian, The Nation, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, Fast Company and GQ. Jones is a 2021 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow and a 2019 Soros Equality Fellow. She serves on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. She also serves as Chair of the Board for the Transgender Law Center, the nation’s largest transgender non-profit organization, and as Co-Chair of the New Pride Agenda. Jones is also on the boards of the GLSEN and the LGBTQ+ Museum, and is part of the Move to End Violence.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/01/2024.

Imara Jones Videos

  • Over 400 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Proposed in 2023 | Amanpour and Company
    In Uganda, the parliament applauded passage of a bill making it illegal to identify as LGBTQ. In the United States, the Georgia legislature just...

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