Educator
"My favorite stage to be on is inside a classroom." -AW
Alyesha is currently a teaching artist, as well as the Director of Program Integration, for Street Poets, Inc. - a non-profit mostly serving juvenile injustice-impacted youth. She spends much of her time in arts education, including administration, arts-organizing, teaching, curriculum design, and more.
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Alyesha regularly facilitates and organizes poetry programming, while visiting classrooms, detention centers and other facilities to teach workshops and guest speak. In addition to poetry, Alyesha has taught professional development and public speaking.
Alyesha has vast experience teaching for various and diverse backgrounds, settings and demographics.
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Dir of Program Integration, Teaching Artist - Street Poets, Inc. (Los Angeles, Ca 2019 - present)
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Co-founder, Lead Teacher - Spoken Literature Art Movement (Los Angeles, Ca 2017 - 2021)
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Coach, Mentor - Get Lit Words Ignite (Los Angeles, Ca. 2014-2017)
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F.L.O.W. Instructor - New Earth (Los Angeles County, Ca. 2014-2016)
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Teaching Artist - Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (Philadelphia, Pa. 2013)
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Independent Contractor - Woodrow Wilson High School (Camden, NJ. 2013)
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Teaching Artist - Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia/ Project H.O.M.E. (Philadelphia, Pa. 2012)
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Saturday School Teacher - KIPP Charter School (Philadelphia, Pa. 2011-2012)
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Poetry Teacher - William Dick Elementary School (Philadelphia, Pa. 2010-2011)
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Mentor - Philly Youth Poetry Movement (Philadelphia, Pa. 2009-2012)
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Director of Education - The Lyrical Playground (Philadelphia, Pa. 2009-2011)