Voulette Hattar

My name is Voulette and I am a student at UC Berkeley studying Ethnic Studies and Arabic. I was born in Amman and raised between Michigan and Southern California. I am an organizer with Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement. Poetry and writing has always been a part of my political organizing. I was a finalist for PYM’s Ghassan Kanafani Writing Scholarship in 2017. I was also a student and teacher in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program and an emerging poet mentor with Youth Speaks in the Bay Area. I am dedicated to writing because of and for the Palestinian women that have come before me, trying to honor their strength through my words, as a means to speak with them, as a means to fight with them, as a means to crawl out from the silences we have been forced to swallow for generations