Praise for Climbing poetreereviews from distinguished allies

"Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feelenriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world--andit is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for theradical futures toward which they gesture."

~ Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCSC

"Climbing PoeTree is a soulful expression. Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman are deepthinkers and gifted poets. I am moved profoundly by the power of their words!"

~ Cornel West, philosopher, academic, activist, author

"These stunning poems prove that there is something sacred, unyielding and deeply human inwalking the path of rebellion. Climbing PoeTree offers us a language, a soundtrack, aheartbeat-rhythm for how to speak with courage."

~ Carlos Andrés Gómez, poet, actor, author

"With vision and rhythm, Naima and Alixa's poems stretch from souls-deep toward the radiantpulsing horizon. Look and listen—Climbing PoeTree might take you exactly where you need togo."

~ Jeff Chang, hip hop journalist and critic, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop

"This work is the glass shattering, a womb awakening, a brown scream. The exalted sound ofa poet's heart. Warrior women, called writers. griots. our holders of truth and words and history.A book opening is also a birth. This is one child you will want to honor, rename and share withyour tribe. This is the glory of water, a weight, a push of language we won't fear. This work is along time coming."

~ jessica Care moore, poet, publisher, Moore Black Press

"Hurricane Season pounds with intensity and fierceness and love. Naima and Alixa are trulyforces of nature, delivering a performance that will move you to tears and to action."

~ Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, Producers of “Fahrenheit 911”Directors of Academy Award nominated “Trouble The Water”

“Alixa and Naima create a wave of such intelligent soul-moving proportions that we will surelysee its effects in catalyzing a radical shift in how our generation cares for the earth and allcultures of our human family.”

~ Michael Flynn, founder, Common Vision

Who is climBING poetree?Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman

Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of two boundary-breaking soul sisters who have

sharpened their art as a tool for popular education, community organizing, and personal

transformation. Alixa and Naima interweave spoken word, hip hop, and award-winning

multimedia theater to expose injustice, channel hope into vision, and make a better future

visible, immediate, and irresistible. With flawless cadence and impeccable lyricism, Alixa and

Naima weave together their voices to tell powerful stories of love and liberation, state and

personal violence, social, environmental, racial, and sexual justice, woman's empowerment,

and human transcendence.

In 15 self-organized tours over the past 10 years, Climbing PoeTree has blazed stages in

more than 70 cities across the U.S., and abroad from the UK to South Africa, Mexico to Cuba.

At concert halls and conferences, classrooms and festivals, prisons and universities, Alixa and

Naima's words inspire thousands of people to activate the transformation they wish to

cultivate within themselves and their communities. Their soul-stirring performances have been

featured alongside visionary leaders and artists such as Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Amiri

Baraka, Cornel West, Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Alice Walker, Vandana Shiva, Danny

Glover, Joanna Macy, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez.

Amid their busy touring schedules, Alixa and Naima are committed organizers and educators.

They lead workshops in state institutions from Rikers Island Prison to Clark County Juvenile

Detention Center, and prestigious academies such as Cornell and Columbia Universities. One

Common Unity recognized Climbing PoeTree with an award in 2010 for creating peace and

lasting sustainable change in their communities through education, arts and media; and in

2012 Climbing PoeTree was featured on TEDx SIT for their work connecting communities,

building bridges, and using their creativity at the service of their vision for a better world.

One of Climbing PoeTree's ongoing projects is called S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D.—a collaborative truth-

gathering endeavor wherein Alixa and Naima invite their audiences and workshop participants

to write their Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, and

Dreams on squares of fabric that they sew together into colorful prayer flags. Begun in 2005,

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. is now over 5,000 submissions and hundreds of feet long. It has been

featured at the Smithsonian Museum in DC, The African American Museum in Philadelphia,

Museo Del Barrio in New York, and countless public spaces nationwide. Alixa and Naima use

S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D to catalyze collective-healing, anti-oppression, and media justice workshops in

communities across the country.

Climbing PoeTree’s latest production Hurricane Season: The Hidden Messages in Water

interweaves spoken word poetry, shadow art, dance, film and animation to examine the

unnatural disasters facing humanity on a daily basis through the kaleidoscope of Hurricane

Katrina and its aftermath. Through a massive orchestration that mobilized inter-generational,

multi-racial, and cross-class communities countrywide, Alixa and Naima organized an eco-

justice tour that obliterated the boundaries between performance and activism.

On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Alixa and Naima set out with an all-women crew

in a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil, on a mission to use the power of art to

draw vital connections between shared struggles and common solutions in a time desperate

for transformation and ripe with possibility. By the end of 2009, they had traveled over 11,000

miles, delivering Hurricane Season to thousands of people in more than 50 communities

nationwide, and featured close to 200 grassroots organizations to garner support for their

initiatives and give audience members access into local movements. Hurricane Season was

selected for a month-long run at the world renowned National Black Theater in Harlem with a

sold-out finale, and won “Best Director” by the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival.

Since 2010, Climbing PoeTree has been working closely with a dynamic team of innovative

educators to translate Hurricane Season into a year-long multimedia social justice curriculum.

The Hurricane Season Curriculum is presently being piloted at Susquehanna University and

Global Citizenship Experience, a pioneering high school in Chicago, and will soon be an

invaluable teaching tool in learning environments nationwide. Through the curriculum, Alixa

and Naima are committed to harnessing the power of art to build critical consciousness and

build new leadership essential for fundamental social change.

Testimoniesfrom audience members

“Thank you so much for sharing your revolutionary voices with The Assaulted Women’s andChildren’s Advocate Counselor Program in Toronto! It’s beyond thrilling to know there arevisionaries like you spreading words of truth and peace with such loving conviction andstrength. Your gifts of storytelling moved me in ways I cannot explain!”

~ Cheryl Fox, Toronto, ON

“Today at Berkeley High School I was blessed with art of the highest caliber of which I canhumbly determine as both a teacher and a professional theater artist of close to fourteenyears. Alixa and Naima’s work and sharing of their stories were courageous acts of deepcatharsis and universal revelation.”

~ Rolando Morales, Berkeley, CA

“I am so deeply moved, inspired, healed and transformed by the love you make visible. Yourwork embodies the genius that Alice Walker describes as artists and as witnesses for thefuture...Trust that you are shifting universal consciousness.”

~ L’Erin Asanteewa, Atlanta, GA

“Your performance moved me, touched me, and inspired me to create change, to start actionthat I have been contemplating for years.”

~ Chris Wiesner, Toronto, ON

"This was truly the most inspiring presentation I have ever been to. I felt as if I truly had beengiven the strength and motivation that I needed to not only stand for issues that I care about,but to live life freely and fully; to never let people or fears inhibit my actions; to recognizebeauty in life itself; to embrace each day with wonder, curiosity, and most of all, empathy.Thank you for changing my life!”

~ Bonnie Ricord, Burlington, VT

“I had the pleasure of hearing you at the Black Repertory Theater and may I say that I havenever been so moved in all of my life… The message you are sending is positive, fulfilling,heart-wrenching and motivational.”

~ I'Loner L. Weaver, Providence, RI

“I don't remember meeting more sincerely dedicated individuals than yourselves. Your spiritshines through your art form and glows like a beacon on a cloudless night.”

~ Ty Gray-El, Washington D.C.

“Two wise and beautiful souls spouting the truth in such a way that makes one cry and laughand rage and hope all in a matter of hours… You two create, something so raw, and soinspiring. I hope your message will be heard by all.”

~ Michelle Pizzuli, Cleveland, OH

WHERE WE'VE BEENClimbing PoeTree CV

FEATURED PERFORMERS AT

Local & International Festivals (including but not limited to):

2013 Life is Living Festival, Oakland, CASymbiosis Gathering, Oakdale, CANew Seeds Festival, Tampa, FLHip Hop Beyond Gender Festival, Berkeley, CA Re:Frame International Film Festival, Peterborough, CACasa de Arte en Movimiento, Chiapas, Mexico

2012 Work*Rock*Sword Festival of Women's Music, New York, NYClear Creek Festival, Rockcastle County, KYMichigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Oceana County, MIMujeres De Maiz 15th Annual Festival, Los Angeles, CAUCC National Youth Event, West Lafayette, INHalf The Sky Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY3 Rivers Art Festival, Groton, MA10th Annual Terry P. Maine Poetry Festival, Augusta, ME

2011 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Oceana County, MIEsalen International Arts Festival, Big Sur, CABlaktino Performance Festival, Bronx, NY18th Annual Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Injuco Convention, Goa, IndiaThird Eye Open 11th Annual Hip Hop Festival, New Bedford, MAEsalen International Arts Festival, Big Sur, CA

2009 Afro‐Latin Soul, Montreal, QCMayworks Festival, Toronto, ONAloha Music Fest, Honolulu, HIGreen Fest, San Francisco, CAKona Pride Festival, Kona, HISheep Dog Festival, Maui, HI

2007 Guelph Festival of Art and Human Rights, Guelph, ONBlaktino Performance Festival, Bronx, NYPrisoners Justice Film Festival, Toronto, ONLilikoi Fair, Honolulu, Big Island & Kauai, HILadyFest Toronto, Toronto, CAOne Love South Africa, New York, NY

2006 Sound Session Music Festival, Providence, RINational Pride for Women who Love Women, Atlanta, GALadyfest South, San Antonio, TX

2005 Ground Breakers, Durban & Johannesburg, South Africa2004 International African Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Women Center Stage, New York, NYCultural Exchange International Art and Music Festival, Portland, MEOne World Fair, Cummington, MAFemale Flavor: Women in Hip Hop, Bronx, NY

2003 National Blacks Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

Colleges & Universities (Including but not limited to):

2013 Yale University, New Haven, CTUniversity of Texas, Austin, TXWellesley College, Wellesley, MAFlorida International University, Miami, FLUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, ORUniversity of Arizona, Tuscon, AZUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, IACalifornia State University, San Bernadino, CAProvidence College, Providence, RIUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WIMassachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MAKalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, ILState University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY

2012 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CAWestern Washington University, Bellingham, WAOregon State University, Corvallis, ORUniversity of North Carolina, Asheville, NCVassar College, Poughkeepsie, NYRoger Williams University, Bristol, RIMass College of Art, Boston, MASmith College, Northampton, MAEmmanuel College, Boston, MAProvidence College, Providence, RIAugusta College, Augusta, MEMacalaster College, Saint Paul, MNUC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CAUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, ORMarymount College New York, NYSUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY

2011 Depaul University, Chicago, ILLoyola University, Chicago, ILUniversity of Vermont, Burlington, VTSUNY Plattsburg, Plattsburg, NYMass Art College, Boston, MASmith College, Northampton, MACollege of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, MEBoston College, Boston, MAWellesley College, Wellesley, MAPace University, Pleasantville, NYUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WIOberlin College, Bowling Green, OHScripps College, Claremont, CAUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAUniversity of Wisconsin, Duluth, WI

2010 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles CASacramento State University, Sacramento, CAHumboldt State University, Arcata, CAKalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MISmith College, Northampton, MA

University of Chicago, Chicago, ILWestern Washington University, Bellingham, WABrown University, Providence, RIProvidence College, Providence, RIRhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIColumbia University, New York, NYLoyola University, Chicago, IL

2009 Hampshire College, Amherst, MAKeene State College, Keene, NHBoston College, Boston, MACollege of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, MEUnity College, Unity, MEUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, CANew York University, New York, NYCornell University, New York, NY

2008 Western Washington, Bellingham, WAUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WIHumboldt State College, Arcata, CA

2007 Mills College, Oakland, CAPepperdine University, Malibu, CAHumboldt State University, Arcata, CAAmherst College, Amherst, MAVassar College, Poughkeepsie, NYBoston College, Boston, MASUNY Ulster College, Stone Ridge, NYConcordia College, Moorhead, MIWellesley College, Wellesley, MAUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WIFlorida State University, Tallahassee, FLUniversity Of Wisconsin, Madison, WIMills College, Oakland, CA

2006 Milikin University, Decatur, ILUniversity of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OHUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIUniversity of Houston Downtown, Houston, TXFlorida International University, Miami, FLGeorge Brown College, Toronto, CAMills College, Oakland, CAHobart William and Smith College, Geneva, NYWesleyan College, Middleton, CTNew Paltz College, New Paltz, NYMedgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY

2005 Bard College, Hudson, NYBoston College, Boston, MAUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MAHampshire College, Amherst, MAUniversity of Rhode Island, Providence, RIBrown University, Providence, RIUniversity or Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2004 University of Pennsylvania, State College, PAUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIDepaul University, Chicago, ILKalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, IL

Performance Venues (including but not limited to):

2013 The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Center, New York, NYLa Peña, Berkeley, CA88 Days of Fortune, Toronto, ONEDELO, Chiapas, MexicoLa Casa Libre, Tuscon, AZThe Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MIFire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative, Kalamazoo, MIFrontier, Austin, TX

2012 Smithsonian, African American Museum, Washington DCNational Museum of the American Indian, Rasmussen Theater, DCWashington Hall, Seattle, WACenter for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WYPortland Stage, Portland, MELa Peña, Oakland, CAMadrone Studios, San Francisco, CA

2011 Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Brooklyn, NYCenter On Halsted, Chicago, ILBAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx, NYEsalen Institute, Big Sur, CAMuseo Del Barrio, Harlem, NYHistoric Capitol Theater, Olympia, WAThe African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2010 Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NYEsalen Institute, Big Sur, CALa Peña, Oakland, CATemple, San Francisco, CAUS Social Forum, Detroit, MI92 Y Tribeca, New York, NYPassage Theater, Trenton, NJ

2009 The National Black Theatre, Harlem, NY (Month‐long run)Newark Symphony Hall, Newark, NJRiverside Theater, New York, NYThe Hawaii Theater, Oahu, HIPassage Theatre, Trenton, NJWomen’s Building, San Francisco, CAMontreal Afro Latin Soul, Montreal, ONLes Contes a Rendre, Montreal, ON

2008 The Nuyorican Poets' Café, New York, NYThe Martin Luther King Unification Center, Washington DCanitAFRIKA! Dub Theater, Toronto, ONThe Black Repertory Theatre, Providence, RILangston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Seattle, WABig Sur Spirit Garden, Big Sur, CANational Black Theater, Harlem, NY12 Mile West Theater, Bloomfield, NJ

2007 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NYVeye‐Yo, Miami, FLDa Poetry Lounge, Los Angeles, CAWomen’s Building, San Francisco CAOng King Arts Center, Honolulu, HIThe House of Storms, Oakland CA

Cell Space, San Francisco, CA2006 Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, Bronx, NY

The Knitting Factory, New York, NYThe Regency Ballroom, San FranciscoSpoken Soul Sessions, New Orleans, LA

2005 Casa de Hermanos Raiz, Santiago de CubaMega Music, Johannesburg, South AfricaThe Black Repertory, Providence College, RILa Peña Cultural Center, Oakland, CA

FEATURED PANELIST/PRESENTERS AT

Conferences (including but not limited to):

2013 The 24th Annual National Bioneers Conference: Turning Vision Into Action,San Rafael, CA6th Annual Hip Hop for Change Conference, Piece By Peace, Oakland, CASocial Justice, Real Justice Conference, Eugene, ORMartin Luther King and Human Rights Conference, Iowa City, IAThe 4th Annual Environmental Law and Justice Symposium, EmpoweringEnvironmental Justice Communities Locally and Globally, Orlando, FLUnited States Student Association, Grassroots Legislative Conference and National Student Lobby Day, Washington DCThe Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI

2012 TEDx “Building Bridges Connecting Our communities”, Brattleboro, VTPublic Interest Environmental Law Conference, Miami, FLHip Hop Arts Education, Palo Alto, CAOuterSpace: Power in the Margins, Bellingham, WALatin@s in Hip Hop, Oceana County, MIBattered Women’s Justice: CLSSP 2012 Institute, New Orleans, LAI Was, I Am, I Will Be: Resistance and Liberation, Saint Paul, MN

2011 International & Comparative Dimensions of Environmental Justice, Miami, FLThe NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit, New York, NY,PeaceWorks, Olympia, WAPreventing Violence Promoting Justice, New York, NYUCSB Students Of Color Conference, Santa Barbara, CA

2010 The Tenth National Black Writers' Conference, Brooklyn, NY,United Methodist Assembly 2010, St. Louis, MOUS Social Forum, Detroit, MI,The Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MIZami '10: Haiti, Hope, and Homeland, New York, NYUS Social Forum, Detroit, MI

2009 Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference,Seattle, WABioneers: Connecting for Change, New Bedford, MAPulse of the Green, San Francisco, CA

2008 The 23rd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, Berkeley, CABioneers: Connecting for Change, New Bedford, MADecolonizing Creativity, Berkeley, CASpeaking Fierce, Berkeley, CA

2007 United States Social Forum, Atlanta, GAHip Hop Congress,” Moorhead, MNMaking Money Make Change, Whitakers, NC

Creating Institutional Change, Madison, WIBioneers By the Bay, Marion, MABeyond Walls, Building Bridges, Yellow Spring, OHHip Hop Congress, Moorhead, MNPrison Justice Film Festival, Toronto, CA

2006 Race, Privilege, & Cultural Competence: Creating Inclusive Communities in A Post‐Katrina World, Iowa City, IOCreating Institutional Change, Madison, WIAllied Media Conference, Bowling Green, OHThe National Lawyers Guild, “Law For the People Convention, Austin, TXJust Say Know, SSDP International Conference, Washington D.C.North American Student Cooperative Organization Conference, Ann Arbor, MISocial Justice Center, Albany NY

2005 Dreams Deferred: The Criminalization of America, Northampton, MAThe Miseducation of Hip Hop, Chicago, IL,Wielding Hammers: Women's Art and Liberation, Ann Arbor, MINorth American Student Cooperative Organization Conference, Ann Arbor, MINational Spoken Word Symposium, Iowa City, IANational Black Writers Conference, Brooklyn, NY

SHORT TERM RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOP SERIES AT

Colleges & Universities, (including but not limited to):

2013 University of Texas, Austin, TXUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, ORWellesley College, Wellesley, MAUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

2012 University of Illinois, Urbana, ILCenter For The Arts, Jackson Hole, WY

2011 University of Wisconsin, Duluth, WIUniversity of Illinois, Urbana, IL

2010 UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CARhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIWestern Washington University, Bellingham, WAKalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MIHumboldt University, Arcata, CASmith College, Northampton, MA

2008 University of Illinois, Champaign, ILColumbia College, Chicago, IL

2006 University of Illinois, Urbana, ILUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WIGeorge Brown College, Toronto, ON

2005 Brown University, Providence, RINorthern Iowa University, Cedar Falls, IOHampshire College, Northampton, MA

2004 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY2003 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Middle & High Schools, (including but not limited to):

2013 Global Citizenship Experience, Chicago, IL

Acorn High School, Brooklyn, NY2012 Saint John Technical High, ST Augustine, FL

Global Citizenship Experience, Chicago, ILLoring Nicollet Alternative High School, Minneapolis, MNJackson Hole High, Jackson Hole, WYSummit High, Jackson Hole, WYDetroit Future Youth Network, Detroit, MIWoolman Semester, Nevada City, CATennyson High School, Hayward, CACastlemont High School, Oakland, CABerkeley High School, Berkeley, CA

2011 Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CANease High School, Ponte Vedra, FLJoshua Johnston Charter School of Arts and Design, Chicago, ILJohn Technical High School, St Augustine, FLLoring Nicollet Alternative High School, Minneapolis, MNGlobal Citizenship Exchange High, Chicago, IL

2010 Pacific Palisades High School, Los Angeles, CAWildwood High School, Los Angeles, CAUrban Assembly School for Green Careers, New York, NYThe Facing History School, New York, NY

2007 Washington Irving High, New York, NYPhillips Andover Academy, Andover, MAHoopa Valley High, Hoopa, CALa Follette High, Madison, WIElla Baker High, New York, NY

2006 YSWI Memorial High School, Madison, WIWatts High School, Los Angeles, CAElla Baker High, New York, NYCrenshaw High, Los Angeles, CAJordan Senior High, Los Angeles, CAHarriet Tubman Free School, Albany, NYLa Follette High, Madison, WI

2005 MATCH School, Boston, MAAlbany Free School, Albany, NYElla Baker High, New York, NYStevenson High, Bronx, NYSmith High, Bronx, NYLehman High, Bronx, NY

2004 University Park Campus, Worcester, MALehman High, Bronx, NYSmith High, Bronx, NYStevenson High, Bronx, NYElla Baker High, New York, NY

2003 Renaissance High, Watsonville, CAUniversity High School, Champaign, IL

Correctional & State Institutions

2013 San Francisco County Jail, San Francisco, CA2010 Jamal's Place, Chicago, IL2009 Rikers Island Prison Complex, New York, NY2007 Clark County Juvenile Detention Center, Springfield, OH

Rikers Island Prison Complex, New York, NY2005 Women’s Correctional Association, New York, NY

Job Corpse, Washington D.C.Oak Hill Youth Facility, Laurel, MDRikers Island Prison Complex, New York, NY

2004 New Haven Correctional Center, New Haven, CTLa Casita (substance abuse treatment residential program), Bronx, NYRikers Island Prison Complex, New York, NY

2002-2003 Valhalla Jail, Valhalla, NY

Youth Programs (including but not limited to);

2013 Young Chicago Authors, Chicago, ILSista-2-Sista's 6th Annual Youth Summit, Brooklyn, NYExploration School, New Haven, CTAsian Pacific Islander & African Youth Summit, Des Moines, IADwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY

2012 Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NYNYC Climate Justice Youth Summit, New York, NYFlip The Table Coalition, Brooklyn, NYGirls Hit The Streets, Brooklyn, NYFIERCE, New York, NY

2011 Flip The Table, Youth Food Council, Brooklyn, NYStreetwise and Safe, New York, NYFIERCE, New York, NYYWCA Young Women's Group, Duluth, WINYC Climate Justice Youth Summit, New York, NY

2010 Urban Arts Partnership, Brooklyn, NYGreen City Force, Brooklyn, NYYouth Climate Justice Summit, New York, NYLive Arts Media Project, Detroit, MI

2009 Make the Road By Walking, Brooklyn, NY2007 History of the Word, Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY

Youth Speaks, Honolulu, HIBe the Change: Youth Environmental Leadership Training, Detroit, MIGreen Teen Community Gardening Program, Beacon, NYWhat it Means to be Latina/o Symposium, Milwaukee, WI

2006 SKETCH Art Studio for Street Youth, Toronto, ONThe Osborne Association, Brooklyn, NYTime and Space Media Arts Camp, Hudson, NYMission Urban Arts, San Francisco, CAUSI Digital Youth Network, Chicago, ILDetroit Summer, Detroit, MIAlternatives for Girls, Detroit, MIProject Row, Houston, TXUrban Word, New York, NY

2005 Bronx Institute, Bronx, NYTime and Space Media Arts Camp, Hudson, NYThe Osborne Association, New York, NY

2004 YMCA, Roxbury, MAEast Harlem Tutorial Program, NY, NYIncarcerated Mothers Program, NY, NYBeacon Summer Camp, Beacon, NY

Bronx Institute, Bronx, NYCasa Atabex Aché, Bronx, NYAudre Lorde Project, Brooklyn, NY

2003 Youth Opportunity Center, Philadelphia, PA

PUBLISHED

In print

Climbing PoeTree, book of poems published by Whit Press, 2013, Subversiones, Mexico 2013;Variopinto, Mexico, 2012, Pixelating: Black in New Dimensions, Museum of Contemporary AfricanDiasporic Arts, 2012; The Poetry of Yoga, One Common Unity, 2011; Whole Thinking Journal, TheCenter for Whole Communities, 2010; The Matrix, Humboldt State University’s Women’s ResourceCenter, 2009; Left Turn Magazine, Left Turn Collective, 2008; Colorlines Magazine, Applied ResearchCenter, 2008; African Magazine, Edinam Oton Printing, 2007; Clamour Magazine, 2007; Sabor Latin@Living Literature, Boston College, 2007; Nexus Magazine, UMASS Amherst, 2006; Affinity by Naima,self‐published poetry book, 2005; Ala by Alixa, self‐published poetry book, 2005; One World FreedomJournal, Firestarter Press, 2005; Altar Magazine Issue 2, Spring 2003; UpRising by Naima, self‐published, 2003; re'nas'cent by Alixa, self‐published, 2003; Dark Phrases Volumes 11 and 13, and TheSarah Lawrence Review, Sarah Lawrence College, 2003

Audio Recordings and Radio Features:

Subversiones, Mexico 2013; The Visionary Activist, Caroline Casey's Radio Show, KPFA, 2013;Variopinto, Mexico, 2012; TV and Radio Davey D KPFA, 2012; Brooklyn Arts Council's Black BrooklynRenaissance Digital Archive, 2010; KPFA’s The Morning Show and Hard Knock Radio, 2008;Ammunition (Alixa and Naima’s debut album) 2006, The We That Sets Us Free (compilation producedby Justice Now, Oakland) 2006; Rhymes and Royalties (compilation produced by Mo Amper Sounds)2005; Stethoscope (Alixa and Naima’s EP) 2004; Manic Expressive (spoken word poetry compilationproduced by JP AS220) 2004

Video Recordings and Television Appearances:

Microphone Fiends, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, 2013; Subversiones, Mexico 2013; Variopinto,Mexico, 2012; Street Inc Media, 2012; Signified Series, NYC, 2012; Democracy Now "Music Breaks,"National, 2006‐present; Ancestors Watching, music video Executively Produced by Warrington Hudlin,Black Filmmakers Foundation, 2006; LoveLife: GroundBreakers, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2005;MTV's The Next, Music Television, 2004

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