Carter Hubbard
FOUNDER & Project Manager
Carter (she/her) is a visual linguist and multipotentialite thinking and acting creatively in whatever she does. Inspired by the power of communication, she creatively catalyzes meaningful conversations in novel ways when leading community engagement workshops and collaborating with other creatives through Floraffiti®. She believes in the transformation that comes from a place of curiosity, empathy, and vulnerability as a cornerstone of understanding. She actively engages in change for our physical and social environments and the systems that shape them for a more sustainable life on earth. She occasionally creates art, spends as much time in nature as possible, and loves a conversation, diving deep with 20 questions to unravel hidden connections.
Liza Wolff-Francis
Carrboro Poet Laureate & Workshop Leader
Liza (she/her) has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College and has taught writing workshops for over a decade. Her writing has been widely anthologized and her work has most recently appeared in The Phare, Silver Birch Press, Wild Roof Journal, SLAB, and eMerge magazine. She has also written poetry book reviews that have been published on Adroit, Compulsive Reader, and LitPub. She has an ekphrastic poem published in Austin’s Blanton Art Museum and was co-director for the 2014 Austin International Poetry Festival. Her essay “Exploring Ecopoetry: Changing Definitions” was published by Valparaiso University. Liza is the 8th Poet Laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina. Liza’s Website
PC: Jade Wilson
Cortland Gilliam
Chapel Hill Poet Laureate & Workshop Leader
Cortland (he/him) is a poet, educator, cultural organizer, and doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his academic work, he studies cultures of school discipline and histories of Black youth contributions to liberation movements of the late twentieth century. Within the community, he serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors at the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, a nonprofit dedicated to making and preserving local history in Chapel Hill and Carrboro's Black neighborhoods. Relatedly, his creative work explores the hues and textures of racialized experiences, identities, and histories. Cortland's poetry has been published in Gulfstream Magazine and the Triangle Poetry Twenty-Twenty-One anthology. Most recently, Cortland has been appointed as Chapel Hill's Poet Laureate for the 2023 and 2024 years.
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