Ehalakasa proudly announces Huda the Goddess as a Selection Jury Member for SheShe Slam 2026. An internationally recognised spoken word poet, Australian Poetry Slam Champion, and founder of Black Ink, Huda brings integrity, cultural leadership, and a fearless commitment to women’s voices and safe creative spaces.

Listening as leadership, and curation as cultural power SheShe Slam 2026 is proud to welcome Crystal Tettey as a member of its Selection Jury, strengthening the platform’s commitment to thoughtful curation, cultural depth, and global perspective. Crystal Tettey is a Malagasy Ghanaian polyglot whose creative life moves naturally across poetry, music, performance, advocacy, and activism. Her presence in the SheShe Slam jury process is important for one reason many people overlook: selection is not only about talent, it is about values....

Raya Wambui The poet who turns place into purpose and purpose into practice Ehalakasa is pleased to announce Raya Wambui as a Selection Jury Member for SheShe Slam 2026, our flagship women centered slam poetry platform commemorating International Women’s Day. Raya Wambui is not simply a poet you invite to a stage. She is the kind of cultural practitioner you bring into a process when you want standards to rise, stories to be handled with care, and talent to be met...

SheShe Slam is proud to welcome Tracy (T Spirit) Stanton as a Selection Jury member for its 2026 edition, a choice that reflects exactly what this platform protects: voice with purpose, craft with conscience, and storytelling that refuses to abandon the people it comes from. T Spirit is an award winning international spoken word artist, trainer, workshop facilitator, community organizer, peacemaker, and certified well being coach whose work sits at the meeting point of art, healing, and justice. In her...

An author, cultural connector, and poet whose work bridges diasporic worlds Ehalakasa is pleased to welcome Karla Brundage as a jury member for SheShe Slam 2026, the fifth edition of our women led slam poetry platform dedicated to artistic excellence, cultural depth, and community rooted storytelling. Karla Brundage is an award winning author, editor, teacher, and cultural practitioner whose expansive work spans continents, genres, and generations. She is most widely known for her prize winning poetry collection Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) which interrogates race, identity, history,...