Janet Mock to receive Harvard University Artist of the Year award
Janet Mock, the acclaimed transgender activist, writer, producer, advocate, and director, has been named the 2019 Harvard University Artist of the Year. She will receive the Harvard Foundation’s arts medal on March 9 during the annual Cultural Rhythms Festival in Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theatre. Mock’s two memoirs, “Redefining Realness” (2014) and “Surpassing Certainty” (2017), were New York Times best-sellers. She is a sought-after speaker, an advocate for transgender rights, and the founder of #GirlsLikeUs, a social media project that empowers transgender women. Mock made television history last year as the first transgender woman of color to write, direct, and produce a television series, Ryan Murphy’s FX drama “POSE,” which assembled the largest-ever cast of transgender actors in regular roles for a scripted series. The show was hailed by critics and renewed for a second season, which is currently in production. Mock has a number of other TV projects in the works. Mock was named...