Dec 9, 2017
2017 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, Arvind Nandakumar, (he/him) is an Indian-something immigrant who has lived in Canada, Australia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the US. He is currently at UC Berkeley studying Microbial Biology. Arvind is a child of Forward Arts located in Baton Rouge Louisiana, and has competed at the International Brave New Voices Festival in 2015 (Representing Baton Rouge), and the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2016 (representing UC Berkeley). His work tackles issues of mental health and focuses on his lived experiences as a poet of color on the autism spectrum.
