Lillia Strickland is a senior at Montour High School where she first became interested in slam poetry. In school she has sought to become a leader, an activist, and a personal proponent of academic integrity, the arts, social progress, and environmental preservation. She believes that everyone can and should participate in positive change and is proud that she was just 5 years old when she first decided to take a stand for something she believed in. In becoming a vegetarian to reduce the harmful practices of the meat farming industry, a cause which she still champions to this day, she unknowingly unlocked a lifelong passion for activism. Her poetry is deeply personal and reflects her own experiences and struggles of growing up in a chaotic, often tumultuous world, of struggling with her identity and mental health and of trying her best to always return to ground herself in something positive.