Elizabeth Acevedo
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Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate.
Acevedo in 2018
The Beacon School
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The Beacon School is a college-preparatory public high school in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. Students present performance-based projects at the end of each semester to panel
Elizabeth Acevedo
…and only daughter. By the age of 12, Acevedo decided she wanted to be a rapper, but later realized she really wanted to perform poetry. She attended The Beacon School, where she met English teacher Abby Lublin. Lublin recruited Acevedo to join her after-school poetry club to further improve her work. At the age of…
Beacon School Front
The school's 43rd Street entrance
Beacon's Model UN team accepts the Best Delegation Award at GCIMUN 2016 in the General Assembly Hall at the UN Headquarters, New York City.