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Azmera Hammouri-Davis is an American poet, emcee, singer-songwriter and lived theologian from Kea‘au, Hawai‘i. The granddaughter of a refugee from Hebron, Palestine she is the author of Breaking the Boxes: Poems for Keeping Hope Alive When Your Faith is Fractured and is a contributing author to The Cross and the Olive Tree (Orbis Books, 2025). A Fulbright Performing Arts Scholar whose work spans from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil to South Los Angeles, Azmera explores the intersections of healing, culture, and justice through the arts. Her writing and research centers womanist theology, cultural studies, hip-hop studies, memory and identity in diaspora.

Azmera holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Southern California. She is the founder of the Break The Boxes movement, and creator of The Capoethic Method, a unique approach to personal and professional development grounded in the afro-brazillian martial art of Capoeira, poetry and ethics. Azmera currently co-directs the Justice Serving Network at Public Works Alliance, and also consults with faith-based communities and organizations nationally and internationally. As an independent artists, Azmera’s debut album Young Spirit Old Soul(2023) and EP Az-a-Mirror (2024) garnered speaking engagements at New York, London, and San Diego Comic Con. Her writing appears in Ms. Magazine, Insight News, Mondoweiss, Falastine Magazine and is translated into eight languages. She is a Samuel Dewitt Proctor MICAH Ministry fellow, and her work is also profiled in Interfaith America and Sojourners.