Spoken Word Artist | Poet | Songwriter

Alexis Green is an award-winning poet, visual artist, and songwriter from Irvington, NJ. Her style of spoken word poetry is largely inspired by issues of social justice, her Christian faith, and urban upbringing. Alexis won the NAACP Newark ACT-SO’s regional competition in Spoken Word, during the inaugural year of the category. She has been a feature performer for venues such as NJPAC, The Newark Museum, and City Winery, and her written works have been included in publications such as Mourning & Mental Health—a playbook confronting the experience of Black mourning, grief and mental health—issued by the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab at Princeton University.

After going viral for her posts about social injustice, Alexis was invited to be a guest on several episodes of “The Roland Martin Show.” She earned her MFA in creative writing from The New School where she completed her thesis on the “Black Ghetto-American” experience.