Karla F BrundageKarla Brundage is a Bay Area poet, activist, and educator with a passion for social justice and holds an MA in Education from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Mills College. Born in Berkeley, California, Karla spent most of her childhoo in Hawaii where she developed a deep love of nature. Her parents, both activists, are also in inspiration. After receiving a BA in English from Vassar College, she moved back to Oakland California where she was a teacher at the Athenian School. Her work as an educator has taken her to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zimbabwe, where she lived and taught for four years. Currently, she is Mission Bay Programs Manager at 826 Valencia in San Francisco. She is the founder of the West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange (WO2WA), which has facilitated cross-cultural exchange between Oakland and West African poets, predominately from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Brundage is a board member of the Before Columbus Foundation, a literary foundation. For the past fifteen years she has been the editor or co-editor of various books, articles and poetry collections. Read More Read Less