Yazmin Monet Watkins is a poet, comedian, screenwriter, actress, educator, organizer, avid roller skater and adventurer. She can be seen on season two of Grand Crew on NBC, Comedy Central and has co-developed and written pilots with Netflix and Comedy Central alongside Lucia Aniello, Paul Downs and the all Black female comedy group, Obama’s Other Daughters. Check them out on their Comedy Central show and their Shondaland / iHeartRadio podcast You Down? Watkins performs regularly at UCB and has worked on projects with Issa Rae, Neema Barnett, Numa Perrier and also opened for the likes of Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni, Kimberlé Crenshaw and Roxane Gay among others. Touring her intimate yet political poetry at colleges, universities, festivals, museums and institutions around the globe from Obama’s White House to Johannesburg, and empowering students from Harvard to youth prisons, Watkins' body of work weaves art and activism, exploring the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, self-love and all things Black Girl Magic. She has performed at and had commissioned work with prestigious institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California African American Museum, Center Theatre Group and The Lincoln Center. Her full length book of poems, A Vessel Born to Float with Andrews McMeel Publishing is available now. She serves as the co-chair of the Arts & Culture committee for Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Once Beyoncé said she liked her hair.