Monica Roberts is one of The Advocate's Women of the Year. View the full list from the current issue of the magazine. No reporter this year has covered the breadth of Black trans women’s lives — and very often, deaths — the way this journalist has been since her blog, TransGriot, was launched 15 years ago.Monica Roberts is one of the first people — not just among reporters, but activists as well — on the story when a killing strikes in the trans or gender-expressive communities.