Yolanda Wisher
Official Panelist
2025 Participant · Moderator
Yolanda Wisher
A poet, musician, educator, and curator, Wisher is the author of the poetry volume Monk Eats an Afro. She was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1999 and the third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2016. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation's Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change. In 2022, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. She is the senior curator at Monument Lab.
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