Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator, and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist", Gessen has said that for many years they were "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country". They now live in New York with their wife and children.