Biography
Aja Beech is an internationally published author with over a decade of experience in creating written materials for print and online distribution, outreach to diverse communities, staff and volunteer management, event planning and promotion, and fundraising. Her journalism and op-eds have appeared at: Al Día News, The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, PennLive, and WHYY.
Beech is a poet and her work in this genre appears at: The 5-2, Poems on Crime, Apiary Magazine, Certain Circuits, Incandescent Mind, Small Portions Journal, and Twelve Winters Press. She has served as a sub-Committee Member at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) and as a Board Member at Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. In 2012, she was awarded a Leeway Art and Change Grant and in 2011, she was named a Creative Connector in Philadelphia.
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