About the Artist
Sainey Ceesay is the 2021 Prince George’s County Youth Poet Laureate. Her poetry touches on mental health, blackness, identity as a Gambian-American, gender issues, and social injustice. She seeks to find and build community through her poetry and encourage others to write. Sainey is a facilitating teaching artist to young children and teens, helping them to create poems that illustrate personal narratives and find healing in the art of poetry.
