Here on Kansas City Live, we like to share organizations that are working to make Kansas City a better place, we call it Kind KC.
15-year-old Emery Uhlig founded LitUp Festival, she’s joined by Community Program Manager, Dylan Little. LitUp is a book and art festival that’s not only specifically for teenagers, it was founded by a teenager. Emery has been working for the past year to plan this free event!
LitUp will feature bestselling authors and award-winning poets and illustrators, including:
- Ishmael Beah, who wrote A Long Way Goneabout his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt, who wrote Becoming Nicole, which is about a transgender girl and her twin brother
- Amanda Gorman, the first ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and a student at Harvard University
- David Muhammad, a rapper known as BrothaNewz, member of the U.S. karate team and teacher at Shawnee Mission East