greetings.

~ hi there, my name is azmera 😊 ;

~ i am african-american and palestinian-american from kea’au, hi;

~ i am a performing poet, and emcee under the monikers azmera rhymes and the poetic theorist;

~ i lead community partnerships at harvard radcliffe institute;

~ i advise first-year students in their transition to college at harvard dean of students office

~ i am a co-founding member of theKEEPERS hip hop collective;

~ i produce + host a podcast called break the boxes: stories that teaches about wisdom from across faith traditions and generations;

~ i was the founding convener of the black christians for palestine network;

~ i am an alumna of the fulbright u.s. student program, ronald mcnairs scholars and upward bound trio program;

~ i received my masters of theological studies from harvard university in 2020;

~ i received my bachelor of arts in visual and performing arts from the university of southern california (usc) in 2016;

~ i’m interested in: womanist, practical and liberation theology, hip hop and performance studies, audio- visual engineering, africana studies, cultural studies, film-sound design studies.