IN Gujarati MEANING HOPE, in Swahili meaning life

ASHA is an Artist, Educator, and Revolutionary.

Asha is a queer, disabled, multidiciplinary artist, abolitionist activist and educator, and child of the East African Desi diaspora currently located in the Bay Area of California. Originally from LA, ASHA has been a public school teacher for the last 10 years in the bay area. She is an international poet, striving to use art to create radical change. 

ASHA has been on the cover of Content Magazine, and featured by KQED Arts, THEM, Gay Times, Gaysians, many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area, as well as been an active speaker, emcee, and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights. Her Tedx tells her own personal story of identity through poetry. Her latest book release and subsequent art exhibition, Not Your Masi’s Generation, tackles mental health and healing from generational trauma.

In 2018 she was given the Hank Hutchins award by the Santa Clara County Alliance of Black Educators. She currently trains teachers throughout California on educational equity, policy and healing. Her dream is to establish her own K-12 school rooted in restorative practices, art and social justice based standards. 

Asha consistently uses her platform to voice out against injustice and to speak up for those who have been marginalized and silenced for centuries.