Akilah Toney

Akilah Toney is a dancer, actress, published poet, and photographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Akilah currently attends the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, with a focus in Creative Writing. She is currently working as the DG Uprising Company Manager, and has worked for DG previously as a summer administrative intern. Akilah has been honored as the 2016 Pizza Poetry Laureate of New Orleans, the 2018 Grand Slam Poetry Champion of New Orleans, a recipient of 2017 and 2018 National Scholastic Gold Key Award, a 2018 American Voices Nominee, a 2018 National Student Poets semi-finalist, the 2018 Umbra Award, and the 2019 Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key and Silver Key Award. You can check out Akilah Toney’s latest work in Heated Magazine.