Michelle Zacarias

Michelle Zacarias is a journalist who graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy)[1] who has written for Teen Vogue among others. She won the Saul Miller Excellence in Journalism Award in 2018.[2] She is an adjunct instructor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and is working towards a Masters in Studies of Law at the USC Gould School of Law.[1]

A native of the West Side, Chicago, Zacarias is also a disabled, queer Latina organizer. She is a founder of the Trans Liberation Collective (TLC) to fight anti transgender bathroom bills.[3]

She was inducted to the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2020.[3]

References

  1. "Author Michelle Zacarias". CALÓNEWS. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  2. "Michelle Zacarias". New America. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  3. "Michelle Zacarias". Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 April 2023.


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