Khaliah is a Philly native and a lifelong artist. She attended the Philadelphia High for Girls where she discovered a love of music and cultivated her skills as a writer and performance poet. Khaliah is fiercely dedicated to the tradition of storytelling and using it as a tool for education and, ultimately, liberation. In 2011, she began her career as a health educator. She has taught sexual health and nutrition and now focuses on facilitating spaces of cultural liberation through food and art. Khaliah recently received her Master's of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Temple University, where she conducted research to initiate a community health intervention; she created and taught Confidence in Culture, a culturally relevant 4-week nutrition curriculum for communities of mixed cultural backgrounds. In late 2016, she co-founded Our Mothers' Kitchens, a culinary and creative writing program for young girls of color with her sister-friend Shivon Pearl Love. Using the works of Vertamae Smart-Grosvernor, Ntozake Shange, Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker, Our Mothers’ Kitchens seeks to introduce young women of color to the ways in which these Black female authors intersect food and language as a means of liberation, expression and cultural preservation. Currently, Khaliah is putting together her first poetry manuscript and writing a science-fiction novel. To follow her artistic endeavors find her on Instagram (@the_kdp) and soundcloud (www.soundcloud.com/thekdp). For more information on Our Mothers' Kitchens visit www.ourmotherskitchens.org or follow us on Instagram (@our_mothers_kitchens).