Diane Luby Lane

In both 2020 and 2023 Luby Lane's organization was a Library of Congress best practice nominee for “doing exemplary, innovative and replicable work that promotes literacy and responds to the needs of our time.”[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Get Lit was named named 2023's “Outstanding Nonprofit Organization” by the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Greater Los Angeles Chapter, and she is also the creator of the Get Lit in-school curriculum.

[14][15] She was executive producer on the feature film Our Words Collide, a documentary following the lives of five Get Lit poets in Los Angeles that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Award.

[16] She also co-produced the film Summertime, which was written by and starred 27 Get Lit poets and directed by Carlos López Estrada.

In 2006 Lane wrote and starred in a one-woman show, Deep Sea Diving (AKA Born Feet First), which opened in Los Angeles and toured high schools, colleges, and detention centers with Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca.

[17][18][19] Luby Lane's book Get Lit Rising[20] (Simon & Schuster), is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Award for young adult non-fiction.