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Ayin M. Adams, a native New Yorker, began writing poetry at age five and selling them on her street corner in Brooklyn for 25 cents. She is winner of the Pat Parker Memorial Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Memorial Prose…

Daphne Barbee-Wooten is an attorney in Hawai`i. She served as President of African American Lawyers Association in 2003. She has practiced law for over 30 years and is active in law, politics, writing, and dance. Her book African American Attorneys in…

Judge Simms was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is a graduate of Hyde Park High School, and obtained a B.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago with a major in Sociology and Political Science. She was appointed to the First…

Kathryn Waddell Takara, Professor Emerita, is the recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Honolulu NAACP as an “Agent of Change.” In 2010, she was honored by the Before Columbus Foundation for her book Pacific Raven: Hawai’i Poems.…

Donté Clark is a poet, actor, and community activist from the neighborhood of North Richmond, in Richmond, California. He works with youth organizations throughout the Richmond area. In July 2014, Clark, along with Lincoln Bergman and Brenda Quintanilla, were made Poets Laureate of…

Karla Brundage is a Bay Area based poet, activist, and educator with a passion for social justice. Born in Berkeley, California, Karla spent most of her childhood in Hawai`i, where she developed a deep love of nature. She is the founder…