Zharia Jeffries
Zharia (she/her/hers) is a writer and journalist dedicated to empowering the voices of all black people but especially black womxn. Hailing from the southeast regions of Columbia, SC, and Atlanta, GA she took her writing skills to Tulane University where she majored in Communications and English. Addressing her senior class as the first Black woman commencement speaker for the School of Liberal Arts, she went on to pursue her Masters’s Degree in Journalism at Syracuse University. She received the Newhouse Minority Fellowship, granting her a full-tuition scholarship and an internship with a major digital news publication, Advance Media New York. Eagerly she set off to explore her many talents in digital communications, writing feature articles for The Post-Standard. Now she is a Staff Writer at Trueline, writing feature stories for their Vanguard and Toggle publications. She has dedicated her work to documenting, empowering, and uplifting black voices because she knows that When a Queen Speaks, You Listen.
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
Pass the Aux
“WQSL is my very imaginative forethought. I daydream about my future children’s history lessons and get angry. I want to brim with pride as I bring my imaginary little one to her laptop, jump on wqslmedia.com, and watch her face light up exploring her encyclopedia of ancestral knowledge. So I got creative. It’s a collection of stories, passion projects, and testimonies, from inspiring, determined, passionate, and courageous womxn that build their own tables, pick their own bouquets, and turn pain into prosperity. It’s my way of passing the proverbial aux cord. ”
