Najah is a lover of literature and learning through audio content. For more than 11 years, she has done the work of a writer, advocate, and language arts teacher. Now she is using those experiences to embody the combined competencies of her various fields of interest.

 

Najah has written news and feature articles, enhanced secondary curriculum, blogs, and poetry.  She is the co-author of children’s book Opal’s Greenwood Oasis, the poet behind Jabee’s hip hop album Black Future, and co-creator of a book of curriculum for the hip-hop album Fire in Little Africa. Najah has two self-published books of poetry, The Risk to Bloom from 2014, and Dangerously Absurd Places from 2023.  

 

She has taught small group workshops and served as keynote speaker for large assemblies. She has facilitated panels and recorded video podcasts. Najah’s research topics include Black history, culture, and literature; Afrofuturism; First Nations and Indigenous history, culture, and literature; and literary trends and devices used by Black artists across the diaspora.

 

With lineages across Texas and Louisiana that trace back to Haiti, Panama, and Jamaica, Najah’s lens on education and the arts is one rooted in linguistic diversity and variance as well as the continuity of poetic insurgence throughout time. Najah was born and raised in Midwest City, Oklahoma. She has always lived and worked there with the exception of 2022-2024 teaching in Guatemala City. She studied at Oklahoma City University and the University of Central Oklahoma.