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William Copeland has presented youth workshops at schools and programs including Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Romulus, numerous middle and high schools in Minnesota, and Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Program. He is a board member of the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, one of the founders of the Detroit Artist-Activist Community Dialogues, and a consultant for nonprofits on using art to amplify their messages. William Copeland studied Biology and Philosophy at Stanford University and earned a Master's in Philosophy from UM-Ann Arbor. He works as a Program Director for University of Michigan's SERVE, advising college students in community service, learning, and social justice projects. His poetry has been published in Drumvoices Revue, Critical Moment, and MSU Press's The Offbeat. He is a member of Detroit's emerging poetry collective Write Word, Write Now, an arts facilitator for Detroit Summer's Live Arts Media Project, (a youth summer program that teaches facilitation and artistic skills) and has toured nationally as a founding member of the Long Hairz Collective.