Tiff Beatty is a performance poet and cultural organizer based in Chicago, IL. She is the associate director at the National Public Housing Museum and co-founder of House of the Lorde. 

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Tiff organizes and moderates dozens of public and community events annually. Her programs and poetry have been featured in various publications and media outlets, including Crain's Chicago Business, History News Network, Block Club Chicago, The New York Times, Ebony, Chicago Tribune, WBEZ, and more.

 

​​Tiff Beatty received the 2022 Roberta “Bobbie” Raymond Leadership & Innovation Award from The Oak Park Regional Housing Center. She was a 2020-2021 Senior Fellow with Chicago United for Equity (CUE) and recipient of a 2019 Field Leader Award from Field Foundation of Illinois as a 2018-2019 CUE Fellow. ​

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From 2011-202, Tiff organized and hosted Art Is Bonfire, Chicago's only bonfire poetry cypher at Promontory Point in Hyde Park, Chicago.

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Tiff is a sister, a lover, a daughter, and an auntie. She was born and raised in Tacoma, WA, where she experienced joy, struggle, instability, friendship, labor, and love. In 2007, she received her B.A. in Psychology from Whitworth University as the first in her immediate family to earn a four-year degree.