Amanda Shea

Boston-based spoken word artist, poet, and cultural leader

Amanda Shea is a Boston-based spoken word artist, poet, and cultural leader working at the intersection of poetry, music, social justice, and community building. A three-time Boston Music Award winner and 2024 Boston Foundation LAB Grant recipient, Shea is known for blending spoken word with hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and experimental sound; WBUR praised her EP God, Again for “bridging the gap between poetry and music.” Her work has been featured by institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, TEDx, GBH, Netflix, Prime Video, and BBC News. Described by The Boston Globe as a “connector of creativity and community,” Shea is the founder and curator of Activating ARTivism and the host of GBH’s Outspoken Saturdays. She is also the producer of the award-winning documentary BLACK: Narratives in Boston’s Black Queer & Trans History and currently serves as Arts & Culture Director at 617PEAK, using art as a tool for storytelling, healing, and collective change.