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Event: National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco on Monday, July 29

NYS Writers Institute

Join us for a poetry reading and community celebration in Albany on Monday, July 29


Stephanie Pacheco
(photo credit: Nicholas Nichols)

Stephanie Pacheco is the 2024-2025 National Youth Poet Laureate, and served as the 2023 NYC Youth Poet Laureate and the inaugural New York State Youth Poet Laureate. She was also a member of Urban Word’s 2022 Youth Slam Team.


Stephanie Pacheco

Poetry Reading & Community Celebration

5:30 p.m. Monday, July 29, 2024

Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center

135 South Pearl Street, Albany NY 12202

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Reception with light refreshments to follow.


2024-2025 National Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco served as the 2023 NYC Youth Poet Laureate and the inaugural New York State Youth Poet Laureate. She was also a member of Urban Word’s 2022 Youth Slam Team.

Hailing from The Bronx, Pacheco has been a leading organizer and strategist with several activist organizations including the Healing Centered Schools Task Force, working to mobilize youth across New York City against educational injustice.


The National Youth Poet Laureate award — organized by youth literary arts organization Urban Word —  typically recognizes a young poet whose work centers on social impact and advocacy. Past winners include Amanda Gorman — who read one of her poems at the 2021 presidential inauguration — and Salome Agbaroji, a first-generation Nigerian American from Los Angeles.


In an interview with Boston-based NPR station WBUR, Pacheco shared her hopes to use her work to advocate for educational justice and resources for schools.


“That's something that's very important to me and something that I infuse in my poetry,” she said. “I invite young, other young people, to do the same thing- to find something that you are passionate about that sets your heart on fire, and to use your art to push that forward.”


Before receiving this title, Pacheco was named New York City Youth Poet Laureate and the Inaugural New York State Youth Poet Laureate. She is a recipient of the 2021 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. Her advocacy and poetry have been highlighted by The New York Times, The Today Show, NPR, The Daily News, CBS, and other publications. She has spoken and performed at The Kennedy Center, Folger Library, The Schomburg Center, The Apollo Theater, The Barclays Center, The New York Public Library, TedXCUNY, and more.



The National Youth Poet Laureate Program is an initiative of Urban Word in collaboration with local arts and literary organizations, Arts Councils and library systems; and is championed by the leading organizations in our field, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Coalition, the Library of Congress, the National Parks Service, and the Kennedy Center. Learn more at www.youthlaureate.org


Presented in partnership with the Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center. 

Major support and funding provided by the Carl E. Touhey Foundation. 



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