Mallery Jenna Robinson (She/her/hers), Young Professionals Board

Current Employer & Position Title: Investigative Journalist for A Hateful Homicide

Young Professionals Board Chapter: San Francisco, CA Chapter

Years Served on the Young Professionals Board: 2023, 2024, 2025

Mallery Jenna Robinson is an AfraCarribean Binary Transgender woman as well as a Transgender and HIV healthcare advocate for Los Angeles and the State of California. Her first role into acting began circa 2006 at the age of 16 when she starred in The Crucible as Tituba an African priestess who allegedly worked her black magic to assure young girls would accuse townspeople of witchcraft. She would go on to participate in local community theater productions such as The Scarlett Letter, A Raisin in the Sun between circa 2008 and 2014. She would also pursue in profession in teaching Middle and High School Science and History from 2014-2019 while also co-leading the schools drama club, and creating plays around marginalities such as: “The Fulfilled Purpose” and “Life Happens” where her students went on to reenact the plays in multiple school events due to its popularity. Mallery Jenna Robinson would go on to work as an Associate Producer for the award winning film “Two Eyes” that centered around the various gender identities and its complexities through human emotion. She would then attend Warner Brother Productions Pictionary as a contestant and was a fan favorite so much so her episode was shared on The Jennifer Hudson Show by Pictionary host Jerry O’Connell. Robinson would later make a special appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show and share intimately with Hudson the 6-degrees of separation the two shared with Pictionary and her show. She would also support local work by starring as Ribgirl in The Baywatch Podcast Production of “Ribbs in Love” centering a romance between a couple who come to an impasse when one is obsessed with Ribs. Robinson would go on to star in Tales of the Trancestors by Director Shaan Dasani and a Greenway Theatre Productions starring as Mary Jones one of the first documented black transgender women in History, her production garnered rave reviews in multiple publications. She would then go on to star as Trina in TransLations, a Hollywood Fringe play about the first trans girl/femme group and their dynamics as they approach their first concert by Director Terrell Green which was nominated for an award at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Awards.

In addition to acting she is the creator of A Hateful Homicide a true crime and investigative journalism podcast covering the hate crimes and hate violence of the Transgender, Gender Non-binary/Nonconforming, Intersex and Two-Spirit community members in the United States and abroad Transgender Empathy Trainings (TET Talks) is a collection of trainings that provides empathetic approaches and procedures to be better connect and work with the TGI community. TET has been presented by Sony PlayStation, and LA County Board of Supervisors to list a few. She also sings and has a partnership with The SpotLA Studios. She is also a model and has walked for TransLatina Coalition Garras, and Nik Kacy’s Equality Fashion Week. She has also premiered in multiple publications and has a documentary about her life that has been presented in Europe and Asia called “The Manifest of Mallery” led by Director Victor Alexxio.