Kiana Davis is an educator, author, poet and organizer from Seattle WA who worked with 4Culture to create an anthology. Unyielding Roots is a compilation of essays, poems, personal accounts and stories about the history of black hair. Disclaimer: I had no hand in editing or curating these stories nor did I design the cover. What I had the pleasure of doing was turning the printed version of Unyielding Roots into an e-book format through CSS and HTML coding and layout design. Kiana has several other works available on Amazon, the link for the physical and electronic version of this book is:

From June to August of 2024 briefly after I graduated, I was one of the lucky two picked for a publishing internship at Seattle Arts & Lectures. My cohort and I Jess Jimmenez Arroyo worked with SAL’s Writer’s In The Youth Program to curate a chapbook of K-12 student work. Students across all greater Seattle school districts submitted comics, poems, short stories and essays to be published. Jess and I worked to read through and curate each work beside each other based on the most common themes students had written about to best honor them - the completed chapbook contains over 300 student’s work in about 200 pages. Disclaimer: I had no part in any of the graphic design in this project in any way, graphic design lead was Cara Sutherland. I worked on the copyediting, typesetting, and curation with Jess.

If you have a young loved one that is interested in writing and are interested in any of SAL’s programs the link is: