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Jayda Marley is a nineteen-year-old nationally acclaimed Queer Afro-Indigenous spoken word poet, youth activist, and community healer from Tkaronto. She works with the Community Healing Project and is a youth facilitator and event organizer with One Mic Educators and Develop Me Youth. As a former competing poet, Jayda holds the first place national championship title of Voices of Today 2018. She is also the founder and creative director of the new open mic series For the Queer Coloured Girls After Me. Whether you catch Jayda at an open mic around the city, or on bigger platforms such as Pride Toronto, Nuit Blanche, and even Parliament Hill, she is sure to captivate every crowd she touches with her words. When she isn’t performing, she is waist-deep in a book or teaching youth across Turtle Island how to use their voices using spoken word and activism.