Jesse Pratt López

(She/Her/Ella)
Founder

Jesse is the founder & Co-Director of Trans Housing Coalition (THC). She founded THC in June 2020 after seeing an unmet need while trying to find housing for her fellow Trans sisters in Atlanta who were chronically homeless.

She works with Cortez Wright and the board to develop the organization and ensures that it adheres to the mission. She also works closely with the Case Managers to ensure that the clients (including her Trans Daughters) are receiving the support and care they need and deserve. 

Jesse has lived in the Atlanta area since 2012 and worked as a Trans Latinx organizer, activist, and photographer, with work published in places such as the Guardian, the Atlantic, and PBS NewsHour. Jesse uses her artwork and platform to visibilize Trans folks, people of color, undocumented folks, HIV+ folks -- and all those whose existences are criminalized or erased. Jesse has exhibited work in places such as the Center for Civil and Human Rights and Mason Fine Art in Atlanta. Her work focuses on many aspects of the Queer & Trans experience; she has organized and curated many exhibitions, including a show with Southern Fried Queer Pride aiming at destigmatizing and highlighting sex work as not only work, but as an art-form. You can check out Jesse’s work at jprattlopez.photos.