Who is cece mcdonald

Home CeCe McDonald. CeCe McDonald is young and passionate transgender activist. In , CeCe McDonald was studying fashion design at Minneapolis Community and Technical College while walking to a grocery store, she and her friends were attacked by a group of white people shouting racist and transphobic slurs.

As one of the founders of the Black Excellence Collective and Black Excellence Tour, created with best friend Joshua Allen, she fosters important conversations around mass incarceration, sexuality, and violence.

With energy and conviction, she highlights the hope she now fights for — that all LGBTQ people can live their lives free of hate and prejudice and confidently pursue their dreams without fear. NOTE: We cannot process requests for media interviews, podcasts or other non-speech related inquiries of a personal nature. Request Speaker Marketing Toolkit. The groups began fighting, and when McDonald attempted to leave the scene, Schmitz followed.

McDonald took a pair of scissors out of her purse and turned around to face Schmitz; he was stabbed in the chest and died from the wound. Though she was injured in the scuffle with Flaherty and claimed the wound inflicted on Schmitz was in self-defense , McDonald was arrested that night and then charged with second-degree intentional murder.

On October 7, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that McDonald refused to accept a plea deal of first-degree manslaughter. But as the jury was being selected for the trial on May 2, McDonald accepted a plea offer of second-degree manslaughter , which is likely to result in a month prison sentence.

At the plea hearing, Judge Daniel C. He was, overall, a great person. A transgender woman named Brandy Martell was shot in her car in Oakland, California, on April 29, in what is being called a possible hate crime , and on April 16, a Chicago transgender woman named Paige Clay was found murdered in an alley.