2026 Participant Biographies

Mallery Jenna Robinson is an AfraCarribean Binary Transgender woman as well as a Transgender and HIV healthcare advocate for Los Angeles and the State of California. Her first role into advocacy began as the Engagement Specialist and Service Navigator for the Transgender Health Program. The duties of this position included: case management of clients, linkage to care, PrEP and PEP services, STI screening and HIV testing. While implemented several successful essential programs such as: Rack and Roll (a clothes closet), Snack Shack (food pantry), TRANSport ( an essential items delivery service,) and events such as: Come OUT and Pose, ValenTrans Day, and a The T-Report Red Desk Diaries a panel for National Transgender HIV Testing Day. She is the creator of A Hateful Homicide a true crime and investigative journalism podcast covering the hate crimes and hate violence of the Transgender, Gender Non-binary/Nonconforming, Intersex and Two-Spirit community members in the United States and abroad Transgender Empathy Trainings (TET Talks) is a collection of trainings that provides empathetic approaches and procedures to be better connect and work with the TGI community. TET has been presented by Sony PlayStation, and LA County Board of Supervisors to list a few. Mallery has also spoken publicly for The Long Beach Transgender Day of Remembrance at Harvey Milk Park in November 2019 and for ALL Black Lives Matter Los Angeles in June 2020 and co-hosted several LGBTQ virtual award shows such as Unique Women's Coalition Our Honors Award on Transgender Day of Visibility. ❤️🤗