Alyesha
Alyesha Wise is an award-winning published poet, teaching artist, arts organizer & TEDx speaker from Camden, New Jersey. Currently residing in LA, she is the co-founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement, an organization providing poetry education and extensive programming for poets, and the Director of Program Development for Street Poets, Inc., an organization mostly serving juvenile injustice-involved youth with mentorship and arts programming. Alyesha has been featured on platforms and in publications such as OWN TV, Huffington Post, Bustle, Afropunk, PBS, POPSUGAR, Buzzfeed and more. Other collabs include the ACLU of Southern California, The Shabazz Center, The Nantucket Project, Brave New Films and the Google Interstellar Project. Ron Howard once wrote about Alyesha's work, "Very Powerful."