Imara, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the Founder and CEO of TransLash Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces content to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the United States. She was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People on the planet in 2023. As part of her work at TransLash, Imara hosts the "TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones," which received the 2023 Outstanding Podcast Award from GLAAD; as well as the investigative, limited series, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality, which received the Excellence in Podcasting Award from the National LGBTQ+ Journalists Association and a WEBBY Honor. Additionally, Imara has served as Executive Producer for TransLash’s award-winning films, documentaries and animated shorts in partnership with mainstream outlets like PBS.
Imara is also the first trans person to ever receive an award from the National Black Journalists Association, having garnered the Journalist of Distinction Award in 2022. Also in 2022, Politico named her as one of the 40 power players at the intersection of race, politics, and policy in the United States. In 2020 Imara was featured on the cover of Time Magazine as part of its New American Revolution special edition. In 2019 she chaired the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on Gender Diversity with over 600 participants.
Imara has been featured regularly in The Guardian, The Nation, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, Fast Company and GQ. Imara is a 2021 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow and a 2019 Soros Equality Fellow. She serves on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. She also is former Chair of the Board of the Transgender Law Center, the nation’s largest transgender non-profit organization, and as Vice-Chair of GLSEN. Imara is also on the boards of the LGBTQ+ Museum and the New Pride Agenda.
