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Zerlina Maxwell is an American political analyst, commentator, speaker, and writer. She writes and speaks about rape culture, sexual assault, gender inequity, sexual consent, racism, and similar topics. She is herself a survivor of sexual assault and describes herself as a survivor activist.

Maxwell has appeared frequently on CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC as a commentator and has written for The Washington Post, Jet, The American Prospect, Black Enterprise, CNN.com, The Huffington Post, Salon, and Ebony. Her Twitter account was named by The New York Times as "A Twitter Voice to Follow" in 2012, as one of "Salon’s Twitter 50" in 2012, and one of TIME's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014. The Cut magazine's Kaitlin Menza said that Maxwell as "has built a career around expressing her political opinions with wit and intelligence."

Early Life
Zerlina Maxwell (born November 16, 1981) is from the United States. In term of the city where she is from, Zerlina is keeping it private in public. Her ethnicity group is considered to be African American. She is always proud of being what she is in term of race, gender, or personalities. Zerlina's father is a microbiologist and a doctor. He is also a biology professor of Norfolk State University, and he is currently retired. Her mother, Yvette Maxwell, was a Ph.D Graduate pursuing her doctoral degree. Based on one of Zerlina's tweet post, her mother got her Ph.D degree after retirement. It is also well known that her parents are both pastors. Zerlina has one sibling, but her sister doesn't show up on media too often. Therefore, there is not too much information about her sister. When Zerlina Maxwell was still in school, she first attended Tufts University for her bachelor degree. Later, Zerlina successfully obtained her law degree from Rutgers University, Newark.

Life Encounter
The incident took place in her dorm room when she were still in college. Zerlina indicates that the one who sexually assaulted her was one of her roommate's boyfriend. However, Zerlina didn't get supported as a rape victim after telling people who she trusted about her encounter. Instead, She was being questioned on her choices during the incident, such as whether or not she drank, what kind of dress she wore, or what she possibly did that caused being raped. Despite hearing all the unkind comments and being suspected to have done something inappropriate, Zerlina still reported the incident. Because of what she had experienced, her current career is also closely related to the topic of rape, sexual assault, and human inequalities.

Career
Maxwell worked as a field organizer for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, and was director of progressive media for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign. She is now director of progressive programming for SiriusXM, and hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, Signal Boost. In September 2017, Maxwell interviewed Hillary Clinton for a SiriusXM Progress Town Hall.

Books
2020: The End of White Politics: How to Deal Our Liberal Divide