Mayda Del Valle Author

Mayda Del Valle is a poet and performer. A proud native of Chicago's South Side, she appeared on Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on HBO and was a contributing writer and original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. She is currently program director of the poetry-based, nonprofit youth organization Street Poets Inc., and a dancer and vocalist with the Los Angeles-based Afro-Puerto Rican bomba group Cuny.