Moon Machar

Moon Machar works in the afterschool program of The Telling Room. She is a spoken word poet, who for the past 10 years, has worked as an advocate and consultant in the mental health field. She spent the better half of a decade working to ensure immigrant, disproportionately represented, and low-income communities feel their voices are being heard and represented at service and policy making tables. She first began this work with the ACE program in the Army National Guard. In her concurrent job, she is the Cultural/Policy Strategist for Disability Rights Maine.

As a poet, Moon works to motivate young people to find strength in their voices through creative means.