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Azmera Hammouri-Davis is a writer, poet, musician and lived theologian from Kea‘au, Hawai‘i. The granddaughter of a Nakba survivor from Hebron, Palestine, she is the author of Breaking the Boxes: Poems for Keeping Hope Alive When Your Faith is Fractured and is a contributing author to The Cross and the Olive Tree (Orbis Books, 2025). From Salvador Bahia, Brazil to South Los Angeles, Azmera is committed to community-based healing through the cultural and performing arts. Her writing and research centers memory, faith and identity in diaspora.

A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and the University of Southern California, she created The Capoethic Method, an original leadership approach to advance generational health & wealth for underserved communities. Azmera currently co-directs the Justice Serving Network at Public Works Alliance and consults with faith-based communities and organizations nationally and internationally. A Fulbright Performing Arts scholar, Azmera’s debut album Young Spirit Old Soul(2023) and EP Az-a-Mirror (2024) garnered speaking engagements at New York, London, and San Diego Comic Con. Her writing appears in Ms. Magazine, Insight News, Mondoweiss, Falastine Magazine and is translated into eight languages. She is the founder/host of Break The Boxes, a Samuel Dewitt Proctor MICAH Ministry fellow, and her work is also profiled in Interfaith America and Sojourners.