Andrea Jenkins, Intermedia Arts Board Chair, and Bush Fellow, is a writer, performer, educator and activist. She is a locally and nationally recognized poet, earning many awards, fellowships, and commissions. Andrea has co-curated the Queer Voices Reading Series with John Medeiros at Intermedia Arts for 10 years (which is the longest running reading series of its kind in the country). She is an Oral Historian at the Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota Archives.