Alyesha Wise

Alyesha Wise is an award-winning, published poet, educator & speaker from Camden, N.J. Currently residing in LA, she is the Director of Programming 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, BET, LA Times, Bustle, Afropunk, PBS, Buzzfeed and more. Other collabs include the ACLU, The Shabazz Center, The Nantucket Project, Brave New Films and the Google Interstellar Project. Ron Howard once wrote about Alyesha's work, "Very Powerful."

 

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Currently residing in Los Angeles, Alyesha Wise-Hernandez is the co-founder of S.L.A.M. (Spoken Literature Art Movement) - an organization providing poetry education and extensive programming for poets, The Director of Program Development for Street Poets - a non-profit mostly serving juvenile injustice-involved youth, and a co-host at Da Poetry Lounge - the nations's longest running weekly open mic. Alyesha also serves as a member of the Theater Committee at Art Share LA. Established while in Philadelphia, she is the co-founder of The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam, voted "Best of Philly" for literary activity in 2012 by Philadelphia Magazine and awarded the Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge Grant in 2013. She is the founder of "Love, Us" - an annual production, turned movement, that was created to promote universal & self love through the arts. Founded in 2010, the organization featured over 50 performance artists, including G Yamazawa, Tank and the Bangas, Mahogany Browne and more. Ms. Wise ran the organization for five years, in Philadelphia, until she moved to Los Angeles in late 2013.

Some of her past hosting duties included co-host of The Philadelphia Pigeon, co-host of Jus Words, Philadelphia's longest running open mic and co-presenter of Philadelphia's late-night poetry and soul series, Speak Easy. She has also hosted various special events across the country.

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