**The Story ft. Hollis Wong-Wear **
Join us on IG live this coming Thursday, August 27th from 6-7pm!
Totem Star Artist & Intern, ZAG will be sharing dialogue with musician & songwriter, Hollis to learn more about her journey in the music industry. Come through to hear her story, to ask questions, and be in discussion with us!
We are incredibly grateful to have Hollis come through and share as she has created positive impact wherever she goes while also representing the music scene in Seattle so authentically.
See you all soon!
⭐️ THE STORY
The Story is a quarterly event where we invite a local artist to come speak and share their stories with our Totem Star artists. ALL are welcome to join in on this conversation, but we encourage our young artists to ask questions.
⭐️ HOLLIS WONG-WEAR
Hollis is a songwriter, musician, speaker, creative generator and community advocate who lives between Los Angeles and Seattle, WA. She is the lead vocalist of the electronic R&B trio The Flavr Blue, and was GRAMMY nominated in 2014 for her work with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
With her roots in spoken word and slam poetry through the nationally recognized Youth Speaks program, Hollis is passionate about how creativity and the arts fuel and shape civic discourse, and is dedicated to lending her voice and capacities towards vibrant social equity.
Hollis has been a featured speaker at conferences, conventions and speaker series, sharing her spoken word poetry and her candid insights on her experience as an independent artist and engaged activist. She has performed and spoken for an array of organizations and schools, including KEXP, WrapWomen, Planned Parenthood, University of Washington, YWCA and the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute, has been featured by TedX University of Washington, and has presented alongside such luminaries as Gloria Steinem, Kimberle Crenshaw and Eve Ensler.
A native of the Bay Area, Hollis graduated from Seattle University with a major in History and a minor in Global African Studies, and was recently named the recipient of Seattle University’s 2016 Outstanding Recent Alumna Award.
She is a Google Next Gen Policy Leader, an alumna of the Hedgebrook Residency, and is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow. Hollis has been appointed to several boards and commissions, including the Board of Directors for 4Culture and the Seattle Center Advisory Commission, and is currently an ad-hoc commissioner on the Seattle Music Commission.