User:Rosasanti/Zerlina Maxwell

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.

She has appeared frequently on CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC as a commentator and has written for the Washington Post, JET Magazine, The American Prospect, Black Enterprise, CNN.com, the Huffington Post, Salon.com, and Ebony.com.

Education
Maxwell received her B.A in International Relations from Tufts University in 2003.

Career and activism
Maxwell first started in a writing position while in law school. After joining Twitter, she used this platform in a way to begin her career. She was first noticed on Twitter by Barack Obama, for whom she worked as a field organizer for his 2008 Obama presidential campaign, then Hillary Clinton, who then hired Maxwell to serve as Director of Progressive Media for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign. She received the Maggie Award for Media Excellence for starting #RapeCultureIsWhen on social media. It brought attention to rape culture and how it is untreated in colleges.

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."

Maxwell 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.