Janetta Johnson is CEO of the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project, which works to end human rights abuses against Black and Brown trans people in California prisons, jails and detention centers. She moved to San Francisco from Tampa in 1997 and has led TGIJP for more than a decade, following its co-founder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. She co-founded The Transgender District in the Tenderloin with Honey Mahogany and Aria Sa'id, and TGIJP now runs the Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center.