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Sydnee Stewart is a performance poet, actor and writer. She has won various poetry slams and competitions, was featured in the Langston Hughes documentary called Hughes' Dream Harlem, which aired on the cable networks Blackstarz, was a featured poet on BET's Lyric Cafe;and is a lead actor in an upcoming feature film called "Everyday People" which has been selected to show at the 2004 Sundance Film festival and is slated to air on HBO.

Sydnee was featured on NY 1 and is currently performing throughout the New York scene and other cities. She has performed her poetry on New York's WBLS and WBAI, on Miami's Hot 105.1, on Virginia's 103 Jams, at Medger Evans College, Wiley College, BMCC, NYU, Columbia University, Lehigh University, Rush Arts/The Corridor Gallery, at Atlanta's Black Expo and The National Black Arts Festival where she performed a tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou and Cicely Tyson. After her performance, Dr. Angelou was in tears and speechless. Sydnee has performed on stage with Amir from The Roots and has opened for Bilal and Amel Larreuix. She recently performed at the Turner Broadcasting 11th Annual Trumpet Awards, which was televised on the cable network TBS.

Sydnee is the Founder and Executive Director of a non-profit organization called Better Youth, Inc. (www.betteryouth.org), which uses poetry and the arts to inspire young people with self-esteem and self-confidence. Better Youth has joined forces with the Ronald McDonald House of NYC where Sydnee hosts a music and poetry night for children who are battling cancer. In addition, Better Youth has partnered with the NYC Housing Authority to offer film and music after-school workshops to teens and children.

At present, Sydnee is completing her second book of prose and poetry; she is currently recording a musical poetry album and has published works in the following publications: African Voices, Rolling Out, QBR Magazine, The Lasting Joy (1998), America at the Millennium (2000), Signifyin' Harlem (2002/2003), and Under a Quicksilver Moon. She was a featured writer and poet on defpoetryjam.com and is working on a screenplay.