About DKH

FACILITATE
The missing element for dynamic and necessary conversations, oftentimes, can be a skilled and neutral facilitator. Dasha holds space and dialogue in a way that honors all voices while stewarding the body toward a productive and effective outcome.  From moderating panels to conducting idea-sourcing engagements, Dasha is an empathetic and nimble discussion leader.

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CURATE
With 30 years of experience in project management, program development, event planning, show production, communications campaigns and curriculum design, Dasha brings a breadth of experience, strategy and imagination to cultural organizing and engagement design.

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ORATE
As a keynote speaker, storyteller or spoken word artist, Dasha lends a unique and compelling voice. While she is adept to craft a customize messaging, she favors opportunities to discuss equity, creativity and culture.

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EDUCATE
Dasha stirs ideas and the courage to carve them into writing, into conversation. She holds workshops and retreats on writing, symposiums on cultural organizing, in-service for educators, and implicit bias training for leadership teams. 

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Learn more about DASHA KELLY HAMILTON

Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performance artist, curator and facilitator. Ultimately, she’s a creative change agent, leveraging the creative process toward human and social wellness.

Dasha has written for national, regional and local magazines; produced three books of poetry; recorded four spoken word albums; published two novels and an award-winning collection of micro stories; been included in several anthologies; and performed in the last season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Her nonprofit, Still Waters Collective, initiated literary arts programming for 20 years, creating platforms for thousands of voices to be honored and heard.  She has taught at colleges, conferences and classrooms and curated fellowships for emerging leaders.

An Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy, Dasha has facilitated community building initiatives in Botswana, Toronto, Mauritius and Beirut. She is a former Artist of the Year and Poet Laureate for the City of Milwaukee and the 2020-2022 Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Dasha is a national Rubinger Fellow and a National Laureate Fellow with the American Academy of Poets. Touring nationally, her stage production, Makin’ Cake, uniquely engages communities in a forward dialogue on race, class and equity.

Dasha is working on her third novel, a collection of poems with incarcerated writers and a documentary film.