This article is about the activities of Jholerina Timbo, a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumna, who works tirelessly in the face of this reality for Namibia. As a transgender woman and activist for the LGBTQIA community, Jholerina has not let the pandemic slow her work for equality within healthcare and access to fundamental human rights for LGBTQIA people. She is the founder and executive director of Wings to Transcend Namibia.