Sequoia Olivia Mercier is a poet, community organizer/activist, mother, and masters prepared RN, Mental Health Facilitator. She is a member and former executive director of The World Stage Performance Gallery in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, and past co-chair of the Los Angeles Free South Africa Movement. She is the author of, Midnite Rainbow, 2005. Her work appears in several other publications, including: Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady (Excelsior Editions), 2009; Voices from Leimert Park, 2006; Voices from Leimert Park: Redux, 2017; and  Angels in the Village, 2000. In 2021 her Story Portrait was on display in Leimert Park and the California African American Museum as part of a collaborative art project titled, Creating Our Next L.A., organized by LA Commons/We Rise. She was chosen by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network(CPEHN) in 2021 to receive an award for her poetry, which appears in The Right to Heal zine.