Ollie Miccio (they/them) is an award-winning poet from Venice, California. After working with Get Lit: Words Ignite for a decade as a poet, they have transitioned to the lead social media coordinator at the company.

Some of their accomplishments include being an official United Nations Peace Ambassador in collaboration with TOMS, speaking at the UN, and Co-Writing and acting in Carlos Lopez Estrada’s Summertime, which premiered at Sundance in 2020. They’ve also performed poetry in Pamela Aldon’s “Better Things”, were a LA Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador, opened up for Emma Gonzales at The March for Our Lives in DC,  helped create original artwork for the march, and have been published by Button Poetry. In their free time, they enjoy spending time with their 100-year-old cat, Beige.

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