Brianna Jean Richards White Trash Literati

Hi y’all—I’m a bilingual, award-winning journalist and scholar turned advocate, shaped by survival. As a domestic violence and child abuse survivor, I use my platform, White Trash Literati, to break silence around generational trauma, systemic failure, and the lives society ignores. I earned both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors from SDSU-Imperial Valley, where I focused on long-form storytelling and accessible scholarship. My mother—once a waitress, later a paramedic despite a felony—taught me grit. My work honors her, my sister’s post-incarceration fight, and the many silenced survivors. I speak for them. Memoirs in progress: The Latchkey Kids and The Fitting Room. This is survival turned scholarship.