Multi- hyphenated performer and writer, Vally O is a Louisiana native, having grown up in Covington. Vally O is currently attending New York's, The New School University, in pursuit of her bachelor's and Master’s in Liberal Arts. She currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana and writes every day. Her goal is to publish one book of poetry and one fantasy fiction novel by 2024. She is also workshopping a new theater production called, The Solid Ground Ensemble, led by Maryam Foye (Instinctive Theatre | Hbc430). Later on, this year, the ensemble will travel to Senegal, Africa to workshop and perform for and with the local communities. Vally's performance, and writing career started in 2015 when she embarked on a nine-month tour with nonprofit, Epic Assemblies. With twelve other co- creators, she built a show utilizing the arts with the purpose to advocate and represent marginalized black and brown communities. Vally O performed in front of hundreds of thousands of high school students, colleges, juvenile centers, and orphanages through this sixty-minute show. This journey catapulted Vally into her performing career. In 2018, Vally O embarked on her first performance trip to Kenya, Africa. There she joined the community in helping to build local schools, providing care for children and performing her spoken word poetry to uplift. Later that year, Vally O was casted in a city-wide tour for Non-Profit, “Voices for the Voiceless' ' (VFTV) in Phoenix, Arizona. Much like Epic Assemblies, VFTF would go on to educate high school students on the importance of safe sex, support, and abortion resources by way of coupling workshopping with an entertaining production. During the Pandemic Vally O partnered with her city and educated 400+ students in the Orleans/Jefferson/St. Tammany Parish area through writing, performance and self-development-based curriculum. You can find Vally writing and developing new ways to integrate advocacy with performance theater productions in line with Afrofuturist theming.