Diane Luby Lane

Diane Luby Lane
Born
Green Brook, New Jersey, U.S.
EducationUniversity of South Florida
New York University
OccupationsWriter, nonprofit executive
EmployerGet Lit
Children2
AwardsPresident's Volunteer Service Award
Websitewww.dianelubylane.com

Diane Luby Lane is an American writer and nonprofit executive, best known as the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Get Lit. In both 2020 and 2023 Luby Lane's organization was a Library of Congress best practice nominee for “doing exemplary, innovative and replicable work that promotes literacy and responds to the needs of our time.”[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Get Lit was named 2023's “Outstanding Nonprofit Organization” by the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Greater Los Angeles Chapter, and she is also the creator of the Get Lit in-school curriculum.[9]

In 2012, Luby Lane created Get Lit's annual 3-day Classic Slam, a youth poetry slam which she co-produces.[10][11][12][13]

Career

Luby Lane founded the poetry organization Get Lit and remains its executive director.[14][15]

She was executive producer on the feature film Our Words Collide, a documentary following the lives of five Get Lit poets in Los Angeles that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Award.[16] She also co-produced the film Summertime, which was written by and starred 27 Get Lit poets and directed by Carlos López Estrada. Summertime opened the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was released to theaters in the US in the summer of 2021. In 2006 Lane wrote and starred in a one-woman show, Deep Sea Diving (AKA Born Feet First), which opened in Los Angeles and toured high schools, colleges, and detention centers with Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca.[17][18][19]

Awards and recognition

Luby Lane's book Get Lit Rising[20] (Simon & Schuster), is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Award for young adult non-fiction.[21]

She received the President's Volunteer Service Award from President Barack Obama.[22]

Personal life

Luby Lane lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children,[23] two dogs, and two cats.[24]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Rabinowitz, Chloe. "Get Lit – Words Ignite to Host 11th annual Classic Poetry Slam". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Get Lit-Words Ignite Founder Diane Luby Lane - Visionary Poet, Writer, Educator, Actress". The Hard Way. March 26, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Meet Diane Luby Lane | Founder & Executive Director of Get Lit - Words Ignite". SHOUTOUT LA. September 20, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Change Lab Podcast 34: Get Lit Words Ignite founder Diane Luby Lane on empowering teens through spoken word poetry". ArtCenter College of Design. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  5. ↑ Schaub, Michael (April 24, 2019). "Get Lit slam poetry showdown brings teen performers to downtown L.A." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Diane Luby Lane shows teens how performing poetry can ignite their dreams". Christian Science Monitor. August 9, 2013. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Diane Luby Lane - Is it possible to change the field of education with poetry? Yes!". TEDxSantaBarbara. June 29, 2022. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  8. ↑ "LA nonprofit Get Lit brings poetry, literature to students". ABC7 Los Angeles. August 19, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Poetry in Motion...Pictures: 9 Film Recommendations Inspired by Poetry". CherryPicks. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Get Lit - Words Ignite". www.getlit.org. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Diane Luby Lane". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  12. ↑ Pener, Degen (January 27, 2022). "Writers Guild Foundation Announces Youth Screenwriting Program With Spoken Word Nonprofit Get Lit". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Get Lit: Igniting change one poet at a time". HS Insider. May 2, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  14. ↑ Kelly Clarkson Cries During Powerful Student Poetry Reading, May 2, 2022, retrieved June 8, 2022
  15. ↑ "Teen poet from LA uses spoken word to ignite change and transform communities". ABC7 Los Angeles. August 12, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
  16. ↑ Carey, Matthew (February 22, 2022). "'Our Words Collide' Trailer: Doc From EP Rosario Dawson Gives Platform To Young Poets — "It's Ultimately A Coming-Of-Age Story"". Deadline. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Get Lit - Words Ignite". www.getlit.org. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  18. ↑ Favre, Jeff (November 4, 2019). "Deep Sea Diving". Backstage. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  19. ↑ "Born Feet First". Diane Luby Lane. December 19, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  20. ↑ Lane, Diane Luby (October 18, 2016). Get Lit Rising. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-58270-576-7.
  21. ↑ "2016 Silver Winners – Nautilus Book Awards". Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  22. ↑ "Get Lit - Words Ignite". www.getlit.org. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  23. ↑ "Diane Luby Lane". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
  24. ↑ "Diane Luby Lane: Founder and Chief Executive Officer". Get Lit. Retrieved May 12, 2025.


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