Leah Marché is an arts entrepreneur, performance poet and journalist/writer.

In 2005, she co-founded BlackPoet Ventures, a Valley-based performance arts company that produces spoken word theatrical performances. To further its work, BPV received a surprise three-year seed grant from the New York-based Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2013.

With her company, she has written, arranged, adapted or performed in critically acclaimed productions.

Leah has represented her native Phoenix on two National Poetry Slam teams (2007, 2011). She has participated in numerous community events and stage shows showcasing her spoken word poetry. She has presented at: GreenBiz Forum; Arts & Business Council of Phoenix's Annual Breakfast themed "New Artittude"; Ignite Phoenix 10 with "So You THINK You Can Design?"; and TEDx Phoenix/Scottsdale sharing a poem and topic on "Starving Artists."

Part of the administrative staff at Herberger Theater Center and a freelance graphic designer, Leah is founding member/organizer for Convergent Arts, co-coordinator of the Several Lives Book Club and contributing writer for BroadwayBlack.com. She was selected to participate in the inaugural Community Ventures Program of SEED SPOT, a social entrepreneur incubator, for her poetry project Send-A-Poet. She has served on the entertainment committee for the Phoenix Festival of the Arts and hosted two weekly arts & culture programs ("The Bungalow Show" and "LIVE POETIC") on RadioPhoenix.org, an online community radio station. Leah Marché was the recipient of the inaugural Arizona Art Tank grant (2014) and a finalist in Phoenix New Times 2013 Big Brain Awards.