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Michelle "Mush" Lee
Michelle “Mush” Lee is a poet and educator. She is the program director of Youth Speaks and has co-coordinated the annual Brave New Teachers Conference, the largest national convening of scholars a...view moreMichelle “Mush” Lee is a poet and educator. She is the program director of Youth Speaks and has co-coordinated the annual Brave New Teachers Conference, the largest national convening of scholars and organizational leaders in the fields of youth development and literary arts education.
Mush Lee is the recipient of the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival’s “Future Aesthetic” Grant and Compasspoint’s “Next Generation Leaders of Color” Fellowship. Her storytelling has been featured at the National Asian American Theater Festival, Girlfest Hawai’i, National Conference of Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE), KFPA’s HardKnock Radio, Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, HBO’s Russell Simons Presents: Def Poetry Jam (Season 6), as well as First Friday, a feature-length documentary film about Oakland’s monthly art crawl of the same name.
She has served as a panelist at conferences focused on issues of social justice, youth development and youth-centered movement building
Known as an art activist, educational practitioner, and fierce mother.
2015 CompassPoint’s “Next Generation Leaders of Color” Fellowship
2008 New York Hip Hop Theater Festival “Future Aesthetic” Artist Grant
2004 National Collegiate Poetry Slam Individual Championview less