“I am committed to screaming if necessary, or laughing if necessary. I am committed to shutting up if necessary. I am committed to reciting the lyrics to every Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe or Beyoncé song ever made if necessary. I am committed to moving you. I am a warrior for Truth. I am committed to living, by any means necessary.” All of these are words spoken by Spoken Word Artist and First-Year Northern Kentucky University Student, Syreeta. From the west end of Louisville, Kentucky, this young woman has taken the deliciously contradictory flavors of her childhood expereiences to form her own unique brand of storytelling. Syreeta is a proud 2012 Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts alumnus in Creative Writing where she studied with such master teachers as Dr. Kelly Norman Ellis, Ellen Hagan, Frank X Walker, and many more. Syreeta is majoring in Theatre with double minors in Entrepreneurial Studies and Electronic Media and Broadcasting with ambitions to turn a movement and fan base of young artists and innovators for social change, which she calls The imagiNation, into a franchise, record label and theme park/grade school. For someone who’s been reading poetry since fifteen, writing since five and speaking since four months, her journey has already faced much adversity, much praise and much promise, but it has truly just begun.