Sarah Kay

Name and AKAs:
Sarah Kay
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About the Artist:

SARAH KAY IS:

a New Yorker. a poetry writer and reader. a spoken word poetry teacher. the founder and co-director of Project VOICE. a witty banter enthusiast. a postcard lover. a documentary filmmaker. a foodie. a playwright. a singer. a songwriter. a photographer. a best-selling author of the book B. the author of No Matter the Wreckage. an editor for Write Bloody Publishing. a Gemini. a mediocre driver at best. a musical theater geek. a smoothie expert. the daughter of a Taoist mother and a Brooklynese father. a hapa. less cool than her little brother. an alum of the United Nations International School and a graduate of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. an alum of Brown University. an alum of Brown University Graduate School’s Masters Program in the Art of Teaching Secondary English. a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Grinnell College. on facebook here.

SARAH KAY WAS:

a speaker at the TED 2011 Conference, “The Rediscovery of Wonder” in Long Beach, CA. a speaker at the 2011 Cannes Lions Creativity Festival in France. a speaker at the 2012 Bonnier GRID Conference. on the CNN.com homepage. on the YouTube homepage. a featured poet on the sixth season of Russell Simmons presents HBO Def Poetry Jam. raised by an unruly family of poets at the Urbana Poetry Slam and the youngest poet competing at the National Poetry Slam in 2006. a featured performer at events and venues like the Tribeca Film Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Nantucket Project, and the United Nations. an education advocate and keynote speaker for education organizations like NAISECISAISANBTA, and IBO. an international performer in the UK, the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, France, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, the British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Ghana, Sweden, Spain, Nepal, and India. a judge for the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards for young filmmakers.

(Source http://www.kaysarahsera.com/about, 2/27/2017)

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