Diane Luby Lane is the founder and executive director of Get Lit and the Get Lit Players. Lane is also the founding producer of the Classic Slam, the largest youth classic poetry festival in the world. Lane's Lit Kit, a standards based, in-school curriculum, has been adopted by schools throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Words of Women (Samuel French) as well as the playwright and star of the critically acclaimed one-woman show Deep Sea Diving (also known as Born Feet First) which toured in the Southwest with iconic poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. Lane is a graduate of the Annenberg Foundation's Alchemy + Leadership Program, a TedX speaker, a Southern California Leadership Network Fellow, a member of Mayor Eric Garcetti's Poet Laureate Committee, and a recipient of the Presidential Lifetime Service Award.