Adriel Luis is the Web & Promotion Designer at Youth Speaks, and has been involved with Youth Speaks ever since he was 18. In September 2005 Adriel joined the Youth Speaks staff as the in-house designer, helping to develop the public image of Youth Speaks and of youth spoken word. Adriel has a B.S. in Community & Regional Development with a minor in Asian American Studies.

Adriel is also well-established in the poetry scene, having traveled the world with iLL-Literacy, a spoken word collective that he founded in 2002. He was a finalist in the 2002 & 2003 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slams, and was the 2004 San Francisco Slam Champion in the adult circuit. Adriel has published three chapbooks, and his debut poetry book, How to Make Juice, published on First Word Press. In 2005 his poem Slip of the Tongue was adapted as a short film by filmmaker Karen Lum, and has since been screened in over 50 international film festivals and was awarded a Northern California EMMY Award for Best Youth Film. In 2006 his poem Third Tongue was adapted by contemporary/classical musician Chris Marianetti and featured at the prestigious Bang On A Can festival in Boston. Adriel continues to build with both artists, beginning work on a new film with Lum and a new project with Marianetti to be featured at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2007.

Aside from his work as a poet, Adriel is also a freelance designer, partnering with Chicago-based design firm Atomic Kitchen Design, and co-founding the design firm, The Funky Pixel. Design clientele include Ise Lyfe, Khalil.Anthony, Dahlak Brathwaite, Los Rakas, Ishle Yi Park, University of California Davis, University of Chicago Illinois, Voda Lounge, Bucho, and M. Evelina Galang.

Adriel has used his passion for graphic and poetic arts to support the Asian Pacific American arts movement, having contributed his efforts and art in Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco), YAWP! (Young Asians With Power, Chicago), The 2005 APIA Spoken Word and Poetry Summit (Boston), and various Asian American Studies programs throughout the country. In 2004, he launched "Stop Masturbating in My Culture," a web-project exploring the exploitation of Asian and Asian American women in American military-themed film, which was featured in conferences and syllabi in universities across the country. In 2005, he launched "The YellowBrown Empowerment Project," an effort to enhance the historical Asian Pacific Cultural Week at UC Davis, where within a single year he exposed the Davis community to some of the country's most influential contemporary APIA artists, including 8th Wonder, I Was Born With Two Tongues, David Huang, Golda Supernova, South Asian Sisters, Mango Tribe, and Kiwi.

When Adriel's not working he enjoys being outdoors, traveling, and digging through music stores for fresh electronica records.