Janet Mock

Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983) is an American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgender rights activist from Honolulu who studied journalism at New York University. She wrote the memoirs Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, a New York Times bestseller, and Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me; she is also the founder of #GirlsLikeUs and made the podcast Never Before with Janet Mock. She was named to the Time 100 in 2018, and in 2020 she received the GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award and an Essence Black Women in Hollywood Award for Pose, shared with Dominique Jackson, Angelica Ross, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Hailie Sahar. Her X account, janetmock, had about 196,000 followers in February 2023.