He got into spoken word through the Louder Than A Bomb teen poetry festival, and was featured in the Siskel and Jacobs LTAB documentary. It is his mission to use spoken word as a tool for self-expression, community building, youth empowerment, and social justice via Young Chicago Authors (YCA), Teen Writers & Artists Project (TWAA), and Global Citizenship Experience H.S. He recently graduated from Hampshire College, where he studied poetry and critical pedagogy, a revolutionary philosophy of education based on learning through dialogue. He’s also in the hip hop group The EyeDealists. Visit his website at www.PeopleArePoets.blogspot.com.