MayaSpoken is an award-winning spoken word artist, singer-songwriter, educator, author, activist, speaker and single-mother. Her voice has graced platforms such as TEDx, WE Day, Historica Canada, CBC Arts: Poetic License and more. Maya is the author of poetry novel Warriors in Broad Daylight and is also the founder of Tell ‘Em Girl Women’s Spoken Word Showcase and Loud Black Girls, both platforms giving women the space to be themselves unapologetically. Amongst her many efforts to provide opportunities and supports to her community, she is the co-founder of the Warrior Micro-grant series providing financial boosts to so-called Ottawa artists in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.