Diane Luby Lane

Diane Luby Lane is the founder and executive director of Get Lit - Words Ignite, a global teen literacy nonprofit started in Los Angeles. Lane is also the Creator and founding Producer of the Classic Slam, the largest youth classic poetry festival in the world. Her standards based, in-school curriculum has been adopted by schools throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Words of Women (Samuel French) and Get Lit Rising (Simon & Schuster) which won the Nautilus Award. Her critically acclaimed one woman show "Deep Sea Diving" (also known as "Born Feet First") opened in Los Angeles and then toured throughout the US with Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca ("Blood In Blood Out".) Lane Co-Produced the film "Summertime", written and starring 27 Get Lit Poets, which premiered opening night of the Sundance Film Festival. She also Co-Produced the documentary film "Our Words Collide", which won the ADL Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. She Creative Directed and Co-Produced with the LA Phil the multimedia show "If I Awaken In Los Angeles", which premiered at The Ford in Los Angeles. She is a TedX speaker and a recipient of the Presidential Lifetime Service Award.