Join hosts Chibbi & Rooster as they feature the incredible Lady Brion for a night of poetry and conversation. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry and be part of the conversation!
Lady Brion is an international spoken word artist, poetry coach, activist, organizer, and educator, teaching creative writing at the middle and elementary school level, coaching poetry teams in over 10 institutions for the Louder Than A Bomb poetry program and residencies in over 15 K-12 institutions. She was part of the Baltimore Slammegeddon Slam Team, winning the 2016 National Poetry Slam Championship and the 2017 Southern Fried Regional Slam Championship. Brion is a recipient of the Open Society Institute Fellowship and received the 2017 Salzburg Fellowship for Social Innovators. She received her B.A. in Communications from Howard University and her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Brion is a board member of Dew More Baltimore, an art centered non-profit using spoken word as a tool to foster community and civic engagement, and holds the position of Cultural Curator for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people in Baltimore through youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation.
