Zahara Green is a noted community advocate and Founder of TRANScending Barriers, a Georgia-based, trans-led, non-profit organization whose mission is to empower the transgender and gender non-conforming community through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services so that lives can be changed and a community uplifted. Zahara successfully sued the Georgia Department of Corrections after she became a victim of sexual assault by a guard. Zahara is also an active participant in the LGBT Criminal Justice Working Group.
