Aria Sa’id is an award winning transgender advocate and political strategist based in San Francisco. She is a founder and executive director of The Transgender District, the world’s first legally recognized district of its kind; Founder of Black transgender women empowerment project Kween Culture Initiative, and both a Board member of the Women’s Foundation of California, and an alum of it’s acclaimed Women’s Policy Institute fellowship program. Her work has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Forbes, Vogue, Travel & Leisure, The Guardian, CNN, Marie Claire, Huffington Post and more.