Semaj Brown is a Thought Leader who navigates outside the line. Semaj sees the invisible beat. Flint, Michigan’s First Poet Laureate is a 21st century innovator in the areas of the literary arts, health/ science education, and theater. Semaj moves about town with microscope in one hand, poems in the other as she draws correlations between sentence structure and math equations. She is a science driven Bleeding Fire social critic, an author, an essayist, Afro-Futuristic performer, director of elaborate theatrical poetry productions, and a builder of integrated curriculum. Cofounder along with her husband James Brown, MD of The Planted Kingdom™ and Health Collectors™ LLC, Semaj is a sought after Broadside Lotus Press poet who has read and performed her work nationally. Semaj is recognized by the Academy of American poets in New York, New York. You can find her column at The Flint Courier News. Semaj is the author and creator of Black Dandelion: Convergent Voice. Black Dandelion: Convergent Voice is a multimedia youth literacy arts/science civic platform for middle and high school students. Creative thinkers respond to the poem Black Dandelion through literary expression, exploration of an artform, or by delving into the disciplines of science and ecology.  We ask youth to find their inner dandelions and grow like weeds!