AMAYA BLankenship

Amaya Blankenship is currently attending Santa Monica College. She was the highest scoring poet in the 2017 Get Lit Classic Slam and she has been featured in three Get Lit Now episodes. Additionally, she has been featured on KCET’s Literary Riot series with her LACES high school classmates, and she recently had a reading at Skylight Books in Los Feliz with Julie-Lythcott Haims (Real American). During for the March for Our Lives march on Washington, a short video featuring Amaya speaking out against gun violence followed a performance of Miley Cyrus on the main stage. Amaya Blankenship is also a youth ambassador of peace for the UN and will speak in New York this fall for World Peace Day. She is also featured in the upcoming 2020 film "Summertime", directed by Carlos López Estrada, who's first feature film "Blindspotting" (starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal) was nominated for the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, with Estrada nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director. “Summertime” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and will be distributed by Good Deed Entertainment in the Spring of 2021.

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