Ed Emcee Academy

We are Hip-Hop educational leaders specializing in poetry, spoken word, and rap as critical literacies. Our Core Services: commissioning poems, featuring spoken word performances, facilitating writing and performance workshops, hosting open mics and judge poetry slams, and coaching poets, spoken word artists, and educators. We serve schools, colleges, universities, community-based organizations, n

on-profits, museums, libraries, correctional facilities, detention centers, and businesses bent towards racial justice, literary arts, student learning, leadership, engagement, and teacher professional development. Special Projects: we work with clients on unique and innovative ideas that reflect our team’s diverse talents and expertise, which include:

- performing a “poetic lecture” about anti-racism and Hip Hop pedagogy for a national teachers association.
- serving as a 3-day resident teaching artist at an elementary school.
- developing content for a national museum beacon for young learners about “hate speech”.
- creating a website that functions as a digital archive of youth poetry. Our team includes artists with backgrounds in youth development, student learning and & engagement.