Zahara Green

Zahara Green is the Founder and Executive Director of TRANScending Barriers, a trans-led group whose mission is to empower the transgender and gender non- conforming community in Georgia through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services.

Zahara spends most of her time working towards the liberation of her people. She was a formerly incarcerated trans women of color who spent 5 years incarcerated with most of her time in solitary confinement. Zahara’s experience inspired her as an advocate, as executive director of TRANScending Barriers, Zahara specializes in reducing the harms of the criminal punishment on transgender people. She’s working towards the liberation of her people.

Zahara is currently studying Pre-law at Clayton State University. Zahara started her advocacy for transgender rights while incarcerated, since her incarceration she has been an advocate in the transgender community for over 10 years.