© 2024 Interlochen
CLASSICAL IPR | 88.7 FM Interlochen | 94.7 FM Traverse City | 88.5 FM Mackinaw City IPR NEWS | 91.5 FM Traverse City | 90.1 FM Harbor Springs/Petoskey | 89.7 FM Manistee/Ludington
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Message of hope and healing for young transgender woman

Michigan Public | By Mercedes Mejia
Published June 18, 2015 at 4:34 PM EDT
Ahya Simone is a harpist. She's also a care coordinator for AIDS Partnership Michigan.
Mercedes Mejia
/
Michigan Radio
Ahya Simone is a harpist. She's also a care coordinator for AIDS Partnership Michigan.
Ahya Simone is a harpist. She's also a care coordinator for AIDS Partnership Michigan.
Credit Mercedes Mejia / Michigan Radio
/
Michigan Radio
Ahya Simone is a harpist. She's also a care coordinator for AIDS Partnership Michigan.

Ahya Simone doesn’t particularly like the word transition when she describes being a transgender woman.

Simone was born and raised in Detroit. From an early age she was drawn to the performing arts, singing in church choir and, eventually, while attending Cass Technical High School in Detroit, learning to play the harp.

But it wasn’t until she was in college at Wayne State University that Simone decided it was time to get real, and start living her truth.

Stateside's Mercedes Mejia sat down with Simone and brings us this audio postcard.

Here's a video of Ahya Simone performing with her harp. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=UF-XD1c64AE

Copyright 2021 Michigan Radio. To see more, visit Michigan Radio.

Mercedes Mejia
Mercedes Mejia produces interviews for All Things Considered, including the music segment Songs from Studio East. She also produces content for Stateside. Mercedes relocated to Michigan from New Mexico, where she earned her BA in Latin American Studies and Journalism. She began in public radio as a reporter atKUNMin Albuquerque. She brings extensive video production skills from her work at Univision and Edit House Production.
See stories by Mercedes Mejia