Lady Brion is a 2016 National Poetry Slam Champion, an international spoken word artist, poetry coach, activist, organizer, and educator. In 2015, she was Baltimore's Grand Slam champion and represented Baltimore at the National Poetry Slam in Oakland, California and at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Washington, D.C., that same year. Lady Brion is also the recipient of the Open Society Institute Fellowship for her project facilitating poetry workshops in prisons and group homes throughout Maryland. She received her B.A. in communications from Howard University and is now pursuing an M.F.A. in creative writing and publishing design from the University of Baltimore.