Gabriela Orozco is the 2019 DC Youth Poet Laureate and the 2020 DC Youth Slam Champion. Gabriela’s poetry is inspired by reflections on her Jewish and Latina identities and her South African and Nicaraguan family histories. Gabriela’s debut poetry collection, Child of Borrowed Churches, releases October 17, 2021. Copies can be purchased at her website, gabrielaorozcopoet.com