Nesha Ruther was a member of the 2015 DC Youth Slam Team that competed at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival. She also competed in the 2015 and 2016 Hyperbole competitions and was part of the Montgomery Blair High School Slam Team when it placed third and second in the 2015 and 2016 Louder Than a Bomb-DMV competition. She is a YoungArts finalist in spoken word and a member of the 10th First Wave cohort at the University of Wisconsin Madison.