Natasha Huey is a poet, teaching artist, and abolitionist believer that as Mariame Kaba says, “everything worthwhile is done with other people.” Natasha has performed on stages across the nation and beyond and has been teaching poetry at Performing Arts Workshop since 2013. She has performed on five nationally competing spoken word poetry teams and was awarded "Best Poet" at collegiate nationals. At Youth Speaks, she organized Brave New Voices, the largest international youth poetry festival in the world, and managed campaigns that applied youth voice to changing public conversations about systemic injustices including environmental drivers of type 2 diabetes, educational inequity, and more. She has co-founded award-winning community arts projects including The Root Slam and Write Home, which are values-driven writing and performance spaces for Oakland based artists and unhoused youth respectively. Natasha is currently the Artist Mentor Manager at Performing Arts Workshop and Project Coordinator for People's Kitchen Collective. She is also a member of SURJ Bay Area’s Policy Committee and Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective’s Interventions Crew.