Sasa Aakil is an 18-year-old Multimedia Artist, Writer, the 2021 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate, and staff writer at the Excalibur. She is a potter, painter, poet, print maker, bassist, and student living and working in Wheaton, Maryland. Sasa has been featured in the Bethesda Magazine for her work as Youth Poet Laureate. She has also been featured in the Washington Post, as well as on WTOP for her work on the A Man Was Lynched Yesterday Project in 2020. Sasa is pursuing a degree in Fine Arts at Montgomery College with hopes of transferring to a Historically Black College and University.