College Open Mic Night Hosted by Mariah Barber. 11.15.19
Date and Time
Nov 15, 2019 9:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Nov 15, 2019 9:00 pm
Brookland
College Night hosted by Mariah Barber
Mariah Barber is Carolina girl from the 704 and current Peace Corps volunteer between countries. She is a self-proclaimed “bag lady” & “nomad” who is claiming DC as home for a while until she returns to Latin America. She is an activist, spoken word poet , author, researcher and sexual health educator. She is a former radio show personality with WZMB “Good Vibrations Radio” and current podcaster on “Poetically Correct” and “Attempting to find da Answers”. Barber is the founder of Beyond Your Organization LLC a company dedicated to exploring identity through workshops involving spoken word poetry and uplifting unheard voices. Her book “Of Mics & Pens; Gods & Other College Courses” covers her unique brand of womanhood through haikus, long poems and more. Riah lives for the Spanish language, hiking ,QPOC, anthropology, Indian food, liberation , Earl Grey tea, thrifting , records, HIV prevention , yoga and open mic nights. She has her master’s in social behavioral & Community Health and has focused her efforts on bettering the health outcomes for women of color through storytelling with words or research.
FEATURING: JENARI MITCHELL
Jenari Mitchell is a poet, coder, and youth advocate from Southeast Washington, DC. Jenari grew up in a lot of youth organizations that were all key components in her successes and the person she has become. She started her journey with writing at twelve years old in an organization called Facilitating Leadership in Youth (F.L.Y).
However, after FLY was shut down, she lost her passion for writing and went seven years without picking up a pen to express herself. Jenari returned to the stage in April 2019 and now uses her art as a tool to cope with her personal traumas and advocate for the mental health and betterment of Black, queer, and low-income communities.
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