NAJMAH53 CV
Awards
Zannette Lewis Social and Environmental Justice Slam Champion
Yale Peabody, New Haven, CT
(2018)
Black Writers Conference Slam Champion, Medgars Evers College, Brooklyn, NY
(2018)
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Green Earth Poets Cafe Service Award
Brooklyn, NY
(2018)
NWMH Creative Visionary Award
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Brooklyn, NY
(2018)
Hijabi Chronicles Influential Woman Award
Oakland, CA
(2018)
Publications
Golden Poetic Moments
An Anthology of Golden Age Writers 3rd Edition (2020)
Golden Poetic Moments
An Anthology of Golden Age Writers 2nd Edition
(2019)
Woke & Loud: A Faith-Based Medley of Muslim Poetry & Spoken Word
Inked Resistance Islamic Publishing (2019)
Golden Poetic Moments: An Anthology of Golden Age Writers 1st Edition (2018)
FROW Magazine-(UK) "Creatives in NY" Editorial/Interview (July 2018)
New Haven Independent "Poets Ride A Wave Of Words" by Brian Slattery (2018)
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Movies/Documentaries/Shorts
"Not a Fashion Victim" The ISPU (2018)
American Sharia Action/Comedy Feature film Dearborn, Michigan (2015) (Actor)
Hottest Poets Movie Trailer- Harlem, New York (2014)
Lipstick Moslims, Hip Hop & Islam Documentary-Amsterdam, Netherlands (2013)
Filmstress Filmz presents Artists & Mothers Against Bullying Documentary Short- New York, New York (2013)
Being Muslim Documentary Short - New York, New York (2013)
Venues/Events featuring Najmah53 as a Performer, Public Speaker, Host, Teaching Artist/Mentor:
CALIFORNIA
Africana Cultural Night, Fresno State University, Fresno CA (Featured Performer)
Cesar Chavez Mental Health Conference, Kremen School of Education & Human Development , Fresno, CA (Keynote Speaker/Featured Performer)
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Multicultural Counseling Class- School of Education & Human Development , Fresno, CA (Guest Lecturer)
Islah LA
Los Angeles, CA
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
Orange Crescent School
Los Angeles, CA
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
CONNECTICUT
Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT (Performer/Slam Champion)
Yale University, New Haven, CT (Performer)
Inspired Turkey, New Haven, CT (Performer)
Modesty Fashion Show Hartford, CT (Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
DELAWARE
Masjid Al-Kauthar Sisters Program (Featured Performer)
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MASSACHUSETTS
Eid-ul-Fitr Conference
Boston, MA
(Featured Performer)
MARYLAND
WGSX Colloquium "The Art of Tackling Islamophobia & Social Injustice"
St. Mary's University St. Mary's City, MD
(Keynote Speaker/Featured Performer)
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Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Baltimore, MD
(Featured Performer)
Art of Ramadan/Salaam Sunday, Baltimore, MD (Teaching Artist/ Featured Performer)
Khalil Ismail Album Release
Baltimore, MD
(Featured Performer)
Salaam Sunday, Baltimore, MD (
Featured Performer)
Sisters' Poetry Cafe Masjid As-Saffat Conference Ellicott City, MD
(Performer)
Art in the Park,
Crofton, MD
(Curator/ Featured Performer)
MICHIGAN
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Halal Eid Concert (presented by Omar Regan
/Project Unity)
Detroit, MI
(Featured Performer)
Project Unity White Gala & Yacht Cruise
Detroit, MI
(Featured Performer)
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Creative Juices, Detroit, MI
(Performer)
NEW YORK
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The Role of Black Muslims in the Making
of Upper Manhattan
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
(Public Speaker/Performer)
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Albany Senior Center, Brooklyn, NY
(Teaching Artist)
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Allen Senior Citizen Center, Queens, NY
(Teaching Artist)
Brooklyn Poetry Slam, Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY (Host)
Inspired Word NYC presents BK Voices,
(Featured Performer)
Horizons Juvenile Detention Center, Bronx, NY (Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
Crossroads Juvenile Detention Center, Bronx, NY (Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
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KIPP Infinity Charter School, Harlem, NYC (Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
2nd Annual MECCA (Muslims Employed by City Corrections Assoc.) Banquet "Dedication to Our Unsung Heroes" Queens, NY
(Featured Performer)
Career Day presented by Wheelchair Charities, Henry J Carter Specialty Hospital, NYC
(Public Speaker)
Carnegie Hall NeON Arts (Featured Performer)
Black History Month Event, Henry J Carter Specialty Hospital, NYC (Featured Performer)
Faizah Kairs Camp Retreat (Stand Up for Foster Kids) Camp Oswego, Windsor, NY
(Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
Let Me Tell Your Something,
NYU Global Spiritual Life Center, New York, NY
(Featured Performer)
Spoken Words on Father's Day Nuyorican Poets Cafe New York, NY
(Featured Performer)
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PS 298 Betty Shabazz Senator Jesse Hamilton's "The Campus" Brooklyn, NY
(Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
IS 62 Senator Jesse Hamilton's "The Campus" Brooklyn, NY
(Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
Senator Jesse Hamilton's Subway Series
Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
Brownsville Collaborative Middle School
Senator Jesse Hamilton's "The Campus"
Brooklyn, NY
(Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
Zulu Nation's Respect to the Queenz
Camp Friendship
Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
Poetry at the People's House
with Borough President Eric Adams
(Featured Performer)
MSA Showdown Brooklyn, NY
(Spoken Word Judge)
NY City Tech College Brooklyn, NY
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
Queens Community College, Queens, NY
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
The City College of New York, New York, NY, Human Rights Poetry Event
(Featured Performer)
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
Rikers Island Correctional Facility, Queens, NY (Teaching Artist/Mentor/ Featured Performer)
The Poetry Society of New York, NYC Poetry Festival, Governor's Island, NY
(Featured Performer)
Moozlum Movie Screening at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
(Panelist/ Public Speaker)
Help for Humanity Fundraiser (for Youth Education in Africa), Smash Studios, New York, NY
(Host)
Malcolm Shabazz 88th Anniversary Celebration, Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Educational Center, New York, NY
(Curator/ Featured Performer)
Peace Rally Palestinian Alliance New York, NY (Public Speaker/ Featured Performer)
Love of the Prophet(SAW) Lecture by Shaykh Mahy Cisse, Islamic Center of NYU, New York, NY (Featured Performer)
Bringing Conscious Back Series- Filmstress Filmz Screening of "Homicidez" -Countee Cullen Library, Harlem, NY
(Host/Performer)
Hip Hop Appreciation Week Queens County Library, Queens, NY
(Teaching Artist/ Mentor)
Queens Tour, Mentor Seminar Brooklyn, NY
(Teaching Artist/Mentor)
Muslim Artists Showcase and Pioneer Tribute, Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
Poetic Mics Ladies Night Brooklyn, NY (Host/ Performer)
Islamic Expo Brooklyn, NY (Featured Performer)
Cultural Night Fundraiser, Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY (Featured Performer)
Urban Juke Joint, Bahai Center New York, NY (Featured Performer)
NEW YORK (cont'd)
Tribute to Kobe & Gianna Bryant
Bowery Poetry Club
New York, NY
(Featured Performer)
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National Council of Women of the United States
United Nations, New York, NY
(Featured Performer)
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Verses, Nuyorican Poetry Cafe, New York, NY (Featured Performer)
Words & Beats, Nuyorican Poetry Cafe
New York, NY
(Curator/Host/Featured Performer)
Aquavibe MixHop {Tribute to Biggie Smalls}, Nuyorican Poetry Cafe, New York, NY
(Performer)
Mass Mic Nicholas Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY (Featured Performer)
Art of Conversation 5 Boroughs, Brooklyn, NY (Featured Performer)
Eargasms, Staten Island, NY (Featured Performer)
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Poetry in Motion, Schenectady, NY
(Featured Performer)
Poetry in Motion, Troy, NY
(Featured Performer)
Juneteenth Festival Harlem, NY
(Featured Performer)
Three Rounds Poetry Slam, National Black Theater Harlem, NY
(Performer- Ranked 3rd Place)
Living Legendz, National Black Theater Harlem, NY (Featured Performer)
Hip Hop Peace Parade & Rally, Harlem, NY (Featured Performer)
Save Our Streets Rally, Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
Strawberry Social Domestic Violence Awareness Event, Queens, NY (Featured Performer)
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Senator Bill Perkins Annual Eid Celebration The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, Harlem, NY
(Featured Performer)
MWIRD Annual Iftar,
Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Educational Center, New York, NY
(Featured Performer)
Messiah & Friends, E Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Featured Performer)
Messiah & Friends, Sista's Place, Brooklyn, NY (Featured Performer)
NEMWA Conference, Queens, NY
(Host)
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An Evening of Poetry with District Leader Cory Provost
Racdem Action Center, Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
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Green Earth Poets Cafe: Tuesdays at Amarachi's
Brooklyn, NY
(Curator/ Host/ Featured Performer)
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The Eid Gala
New York, NY
(Featured Performer)
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BRIC Hip-Hop Block Party + Family Day
for Brooklyn Arts Council
BRIC Media House, Brooklyn, NY
(Featured Performer)
NEW JERSEY
Islamic Weekend Conference, Sheraton Convention Center Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
Masjid Baitul-Nasr
Pleasantville, NJ
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
When Women Speak
Newark, NJ
(Featured Performer)
"Countering Stereotypes, Muslim Impact in NY", Rutgers University
(Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
Halal Food Fest,
Rowland Park, NJ
(Featured Performer)
New Jersey Commonwealth University,
Jersey City, NJ (Performer)
Poetic Reflections
Hooferz Club, Newark, NJ
(Host)
PENNSYLVANIA
Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam Festival, Philadelphia, PA (Quarter Finals Judge)
Uniquely You Summit, Villanova University, Villanova, PA (Teaching Artist/Mentor)
UMM Point Breeze Tea Party (for girls 4-12) Philadelphia, PA (Public Speaker/Teaching Artist/Mentor)
The Riyaadah, African American Museum of Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
ICPIC Islamic Festival, Penns Landing, Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
Open Words, Norristown, PA (Featured Performer)
An Evening of the Arts Philadelphia, PA (Host/ Performer)
Islamically Spoken, Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
Eid Gala at the Isada, Philadelphia, PA (Performer)
What She Said- A Black Women's Perspective Philadelphia, PA
(Featured Performer)
Prophetic Presentations presents Queendom,
Fashion & Spoken Word,
Philadelphia, PA
(Featured Performer)
Poetree Under the Arts Album Release Party Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
Muslim Women of Spoken Word
Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
"Living as a Covered Girl" Event
Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
Sickle Cell Benefit Concert
Art Garage, Philadelphia, PA
(Featured Performer)
Watch The Queens
Philadelphia, PA
(Curator/Host/Performer)
M'Squared Summer White Fashion Show, Philadelphia, PA
(Host/Performer)
Salaam Sunday Philly Edition
Philadelphia, PA (Performer)
Jus Words, Philadelphia, PA ( Spotlight Performer)
Artistic Expressions at The Rotunda Philadelphia, PA (Featured Performer)
TENNESSEE
University of Memphis (Public Speaker)
VIRGINIA
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond,VA (Public Speaker/Featured Performer)
WASHINGTON, DC
Crescent Moon Nights, Washington,DC
(Featured Performer)
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CANADA
Toronto
(Public Speaker)
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UNITED KINGDOM​
Penny Appeal Tour
(Public Speaker)
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London, England
Wembley, England
Leichester, England
Manchester, England
Bradford, England
Birmingham, England
Edinburgh, Scotland
Glasgow, Scotland
Blackburn, Scotland
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Teaching Artist
NeON Arts Bedstuy
NeON Arts Brownsville
(Poetry/Creative Writing, Hip Hop)
Brooklyn, NY
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NeON Arts Staten Island
(Poetry/Creative Writing, Hip Hop)
Staten Island, NY
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Su-CASA -Albany Neighborhood Senior Center
(Poetry/Creative Writing)
Brooklyn, NY
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Su-CASA -Allen Community Senior Citizens Center
(Poetry/Creative Writing)
Queens, NY
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Center for Community Alternatives
(Poetry/Creative Writing, Graphic Design)
Brooklyn, NY
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Passages Academy (NSP, LSP)
(Poetry/Creative Writing)
Brooklyn, NY
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Youth Justice League
(Poetry/Creative Writing)
New York, NY
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Rikers Correctional Facility
(Poetry/Creative Writing, Hip Hop, Graphic Design)
Queens, NY
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Choose Creativity Lulu Leo Fund
(Poetry/Creative Writing)
Brooklyn, Bronx, New York, NY
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Rising Ground
(Poetry/Creative Writing, Mental Health, Life Skills)
Brooklyn, NY
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Horizons Juvenile Center
(Poetry/Creative Writing/ Hip Hop)
Bronx, NY
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Crossroads Juvenile Center
(Poetry/Creative Writing/ Hip Hop)
Brooklyn, NY
Girl Scouts of Greater New York
(Leadership, Entrepreneurship)
Brooklyn, New York, NY
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Kremen School of Education and Human Development, California State University
Fresno, CA
(Multicultural Counseling, Religious Studies, Poetry/Creative Writing/ Hip Hop)
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Prince Joshua Avitto Community Center
(Poetry/Creative Writing, Photography,
Computer Literacy)
Brooklyn, NY
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Brooklyn Collaborative Studies High School
(Entrepreneurship)
Brooklyn, NY
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