Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Aysha Upchurch is a seed planter and soil agitator who creates, facilitates, and designs for radical change.  This translates to her working as a sought after performer, instructor, education consultant, and facilitator whose work sits at the nexus of youth advocacy, social justice, and transformative education.  Joy and community are core tenets of her facilitation practice. She supports organizations on their goals around more effective communication, identifying best collaborative strategies, and creating pathways to embed diversity, equity, inclusion as a practice and as values into their mission.

Aysha holds an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University and an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been on faculty at George Mason University, Howard Community College, and Salem State University.  Currently she is a Lecturer and Artist-in-Residence at Harvard, where she teaches courses on Hip Hop education and embodied learning. She also directs HipHopEX - an intergenerational lab-classroom that designs programming to experience, explore, and experiment with Hop Hop arts in education.