Marlanda Dekine ('21-'22)

Marlanda Dekine, LMSW, MFA, (she/her) is a creative social worker and the CEO & Founder of {unnamed} LLC. Dekine is a graduate of Furman University (BA in Psychology), the University of South Carolina (Master of Social Work), and Converse University (Master of Fine Arts in Poetry). Her collection of poems, Thresh & Hold, won the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize. Her poems have been set to music and premiered across the Eastern United States. She is the creator of i am from a punch & a kiss, a multimedia book/mixtape project, SOUL: An Ancestor Workshop, and Speaking Down Barriers.