History about GET LIT

 Get Lit – Words Ignite was founded in 2006 in Los Angeles by Diane Luby Lane to increase literacy, empower youth, and energize communities through poetry. The inspiration for Get Lit began with a solo show that Ms. Lane toured with internationally celebrated poet and advocate Jimmy Santiago Baca in venues ranging from high schools and universities to prisons. Teachers and teens responded with enthusiastic requests for poetry in their classrooms. Lane then developed a curriculum through which she saw the most reluctant youth, some on the brink of dropping out, transform into poets, leaders, and scholars. To sustain this transformative work, Lane founded Get Lit first as a project of Community Partners, then in 2009 the organization incorporated as a 501(c)(3). Through her vision, Get Lit has become a respected and innovative leader in arts and education with a reputation for integrity in program implementation and effectiveness.