Maria Vasquez Boyd is producer/host, of Artspeak Radio a weekly live program on 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio. Since 2012, she features local and world renowned artists, writers, poets, playwrights locally and internationally. Boyd is a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective, a storyteller, poet, artist, designer, painter, and continues to exhibit her work across the country. She served as Poet in Residence for Present Magazine in Kansas City, Missouri.