JUNE ELIZABETH BANKS

June Elizabeth Banks, also known as JuneeBee, is a spoken word artist, poet, singer and podcast host. Her earliest appearance in the Lyrical Opposition archive is Paradigm Rhymes in Daly City on September 6, 2014, where she was billed from Las Vegas. She became an Official Lyrical Opposition Artist on December 12, 2015, as one of its five Winter 2015 roster inductees, alongside Jermaine Hughes, Cheddy Uluave, Bspokeit the Poet and BxCause, and she is honored today as LYRICAL Alumni.

Before she joined the roster, she organized Frontline Young Adults' #ThirdThursdays night in February 2015, where Lyrical Opposition performed and thanked her for "an amazingly organized event." That October, Lyrical Opposition shared video of her performing a piece on gentrification in the Bay Area at The Urban Center in San Francisco. She shared her work at Lyrical Opposition's first workshop of 2016, and in November 2019 she came back to the Bay Area to co-facilitate Lyrical Academy with Jermaine Hughes at Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland.

In February 2020 she performed at both nights of The Love Revival, presented by Lord's Child in San Jose and San Francisco, and that March Lyrical Opposition published a video of her spoken word piece "Treasure Trove." In June 2020 she became one of the four Lyrical Ones, with Sineo, Fego Navarro and Alfluent, when Lyrical Opposition launched its official podcast. On the show she performed "Connecting," which Lyrical Opposition described as "a piece about justice, divine synchronicity and connecting the dots in life and manifesting it into reality."