Live with The 19th: What’s at stake for LGBTQ+ voters in November?

Join The 19th’s Kate Sosin on Monday, October 5, at 1 pm ET (Noon CT) for a conversation on how the pandemic, protests and rising anti-trans violence will impact queer voters in the 2020 election. Kate will be joined by:

Precious Brady-Davis, an LGBTQ+ activist and Central Region Communications Director for the Sierra Club

Katie Hill, former U.S. Representative and founder of HER Time PAC

Andrea Jenkins, Vice President of the Minneapolis City Council

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Precious Brady-Davis (@mspreciousdavis) is an award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional and public speaker. She currently serves as the Central Region Communications Director for the Beyond Coal Campaign at the Sierra Club. Precious previously served for three years as the youth outreach coordinator at the largest LGBT community center in the midwest.

Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) is a former member of Congress who represented California’s 25th district. She was the first woman to hold the seat, the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to Congress from California, and one of the youngest women ever to serve in the House of Representatives. She resigned in November 2019 following a scandal that spurred a national conversation around bisexuality, domestic abuse, cyber exploitation and workplace power dynamics. Hill is the author of “She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality,” and the founder of HER Time, a political action committee supporting women in politics.

Andrea Jenkins (@annapoetic) is a writer, performance artist, poet and transgender activist. She is the first openly trans African American woman to be elected to office in the United States. Jenkins moved to Minnesota to attend the University of Minnesota in 1979 and was hired by the Hennepin County government, where she worked for a decade. Jenkins worked as a staff member on the Minneapolis City Council for 12 years before beginning work as curator of the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota's Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.

Kate Sosin (@shoeleatherkate) is The 19th's LGBTQ+ reporter, focusing on transgender rights, incarceration, politics and public policy. Kate has conducted deep-dive investigations into transgender prison abuse and homicides for NBC News. They previously worked at Logo TV, INTO and Windy City Times. You can reach Kate at ksosin@19thnews.org.

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