Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman served as the second Poet Laureate of Prince George's County, MD from 2023-2025. She is a community organizer and cultural architect with over 20 years of experience transforming spaces into vibrant arts and educational hubs. Her work interrogates perceptions of identity, justice, and place, often centering the lived experiences of Black women over 40. Embracing her multifaceted identity as a creator, she is also the award-winning performance artist Khadijah Moon and a multi-genre writer whose work spans poetry, songwriting, playwriting, and filmmaking. Her plays, songs, and poetry have been staged, workshopped, and read on dozens of stages, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Alliance, Anacostia Playhouse, the Baltimore Book Festival, National Harbor, ARTSCAPE, Capital Fringe Festival, and the Anacostia Arts Center.