instagram “I’m just a girl from DC with a passion and vision to tell inclusive stories that will hopefully inspire other audacious visionaries to dream big and go after what they want.” —17-year-old actress, producer and filmmaker Lexi Underwood (
@officiallexiunderwood )
Lexi is living out her dream and creating space for others to do the same. This year, she’s one of the nominees at the NAACP Image Awards (
@naacpimageawards ), which celebrate outstanding achievements and performances in the Black community, an honor that Lexi takes serious pride in as she dedicates herself to amplifying Black stories.
“If you can’t see it, you can’t be it. We normalize our stories by sharing them. When we fill these spaces and lean into our brilliance, Black stories are no longer reduced to ethnic experiences, anomalies or urban myths of mythical creatures.
Our joyous, complex stories take center stage as a normalized way of life, connected to universal experiences that ultimately connect us to the human experience, where we find that we are more alike than we are different.”
Today on our story, Lexi highlights some of the women who inspire her every day.
#ShareBlackStories 🖤
Photo by
@officiallexiunderwood