Three-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist Amanda Shea is redefining poetry as a powerful tool for transformative dialogue on a global scale. Revered by The Boston Globe as a “connector of creativity and community,” Shea has curated and hosted intergenerational poetry and hip-hop events on stages including Boston Calling, BAMSFest, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Series, and the Jos Literary Festival in Nigeria, with work featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, TEDX, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, and GBH.

Shea co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival in Boston that amplifies POC voices through art, activism, and resistance. She is the curator and host of GBH “Outspoken Saturdays”, the recipient of The Boston Foundation LAB Grant 2024, and serves as the Arts & Culture Director at 617PEAK. As a contractor educator at various Boston Public Schools, she uses her platform to inspire and teach. Shea is set to release her first poetry collection, Pieces of Shea, in 2026 with Balboa Publishing.