Cynthia with Diane Luby Lane is the Founder/CEO of the global nonprofit GetLit - Words Ignite

Diane Luby Lane is the Founder/CEO of the global nonprofit GetLit - Words Ignite, whose mission is to amplify student engagement and literacy through the power of Spoken Word. In 2024 Get Lit was one of 300 organizations that received $1M+ from Mackenzie Scott's Yield Foundation (of more than 6,500 applicants.) In 2023 Get Lit was voted Nonprofit Organization of The Year. It is a 2020 and 2023 Library of Congress international best practice nominee for “doing exemplary, innovative and replicable work that promotes literacy.” (1 of 15 in the world.) Since 2006 the Get Lit in-school curricula has been taught in over 150 schools, with over 100,000 graduates.The Get Lit Players teen poetry troupe have performed at the White House 3 times, Kennedy Center, and opened for John Legend. Their online videos have over 300 million views and 29 Get Lit Players co-wrote and starred in the feature film SUMMERTIME, which opened Sundance in 2020. Diane’s book, Get Lit Rising (Simon & Schuster), is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Award.She has led workshops at Yale, USC, UCLA, and the Library of Congress. She has appeared on CNN, NPR, Kelly Clarkson Show, and ABC. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, two dogs, and two cats. She is a licensed Agape Spiritual Practitioner, a Certified Mindfulness Mediation Teacher (UC Berkeley), and a member of The Association of Transformational Leaders (ATL).