Amiri Nash is interested in creating an equitable world through art, advocacy, and dialogue. The 2021 DC Youth Poet Laureate, Nash utilizes rhetoric and language to create spaces for conversation and reflection about our society. He is the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of The Black Star Journal, a Black student newspaper at Brown University where he holds a BA in English. He is an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow and interned at The Bronx Defenders in the Civil Action Practice. In 2021, Nash became the DC Youth Poet Laureate, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Teen Vogue, and NPR. He has written for national publications about the importance of collective action, art, and community. Whether in dialogue with Vice President Harris at The White House or his family around the dinner table, he loves thinking with others about how we can strive towards a better future together.