Ariana Lee

Ariana Lee (she/her) is the 2022-2023 Houston Youth Poet Laureate and two-time member of Meta4 Houston, the city's official youth slam poetry team ranked #1 in the world at Youth Speaks' Brave New Voices competition in 2023. Lee has opened for US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and performed original work for NASA,  the NCAA, Stop AAPI Hate, the Aspen Institute, the Houston Mayor's Office, and more. She advocates for social and environmental justice and is a freshman at Stanford University.