Alyesha Wise-Hernandez
Poet, Arts Educator, and Writer
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Alyesha Wise is a poet, arts educator, and writer from Camden, N.J. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Alyesha is the Director of Program Integration for Street Poets Inc. - a non-profit mostly serving juvenile injustice-impacted youth. Since 2018, Alyesha has been a regular, and guest, host at Da Poetry Lounge, where she served as the coach of the DPL slam team from 2017-18, co-coaching both teams to final stage at The National Poetry Slam, along with Matthew 'Cuban' Hernandez. Wise also served as the Get Lit-Words Ignite youth slam team co-coach from 2014-2017, along with head coach, 'Cuban.' Wise is a 2-time Women of the World Poetry Slam finalist and has been featured on different platforms and publications such as OWN, BET, Huffington Post, Afropunk, PBS, LA Times, Buzzfeed, Free Speech TV and more. She has collaborated with The Nantucket Project, the ACLU of Southern California, Brave New Films and additional major platforms, having featured in the Google Interstellar Project, in conjunction with the hit film Interstellar. A recipient of the 2025 Los Angeles Preservation Awards, Ron Howard once wrote about Alyesha's work, "Very Powerful."
