Ms. Jamila Wade

DCCWW's current Executive Director, Jamila Wade, has chosen to return to the classroom to teach secondary English at a DC public high school starting this fall.

Ceshelle's poem "Air" shares a page with a photo of the DCCWW Executive Director, Jamila Wade and the poems of two classmates.
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Jamila Wade, the organization's senior program director who emceed the slam, announced the publication of Ballou's new literary magazine, "Voice of the Knight. The magazine is a compilation of poetry written by students over the course of a year.

"Grief, anger, fear, frustration, acceptance, forgiveness, peace, joy, love. We need poetry to deal with life's everyday struggles. We need it to heal us, we need it to help us rejoice. Without self-expression, without writing, without our words, we would have no voice," Ms. Wade said before introducing the student artists and instructors.

Jamila Wade, Executive Director and Writer-in-residence
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Jamila Wade, Ex-Officio

"This is an exciting opportunity for us," says Jamila Wade, Executive Director of the Workshop.

Jamila Wade, the organization's senior program director who emceed the slam, announced the publication of Ballou's new literary magazine, "Voice of the Knight."The magazine is a compilation of poetry written by students over the course of a year."Grief, anger, fear, frustration, acceptance, forgiveness, peace, joy, love.We need poetry to deal with life's everyday struggles.We need it to heal us, we need it to help us rejoice.Without self-expression, without writing, without our words, we would have no voice," Ms. Wade said before introducing the student artists and instructors.Shawnita Jackson, 17, who won the slam, stepped up to the microphone with only her memory, experiences and voice upon which to rely.The 10th-grader exuded confidence as she passionately recited her poem, which she called "My Voice.""My poetry makes me think of my past, the things that I go through -- the things I've been through," Shawnita said."My poetry relieves my depression -- depression about things that go on in the neighborhood.Poetry is the only way to release it. [But], right now, I'm very, very, very happy," she said, smiling.

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