In 2017, while still attending Harvard, Amanda became the inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate, and she toured the country reading new work, including “Earthrise” at the Los Angeles Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training (2018). Amanda enrolled at Harvard University in 2016, while Gabrielle pursued film studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, but the sisters found ways of collaborating, notably working on such projects as Rise Up As One (2018), a short film by Gabrielle about activism with Amanda reading a poem of the same title. She self-published her first collection of poetry, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015. In that capacity she worked with the County of Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations to develop youth programs. The following year she was named the inaugural Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate. Inspired by Pakistani activist and future Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Gorman became a youth delegate for the United Nations in 2013. By her own account, she sought out poetry as an inexpensive means of expressing herself. Amanda had an auditory-processing disorder that made it hard for her to pronounce the letter r. The sisters both had difficulties with speech. Gorman and her siblings, including her twin sister, Gabrielle, were raised by a single mother, Joan Wicks, who was a middle-school teacher. She gained international fame when she read her poem “ The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration of U.S. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īmanda Gorman, (born March 7, 1998, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American poet and activist known for works that address Black identity, feminism, marginalization, and climate change.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.
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