Uchechi Kalu

Uchechi Kalu is a Nigerian-born American poet, teacher, activist and entrepreneur whose work has appeared in several publications including Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie (Alyson 2000). Kalu was a student of June Jordan's "Poetry for the People" and taught in San Francisco WritersCorps. She is the author of Flowers Blooming Against A Bruised Grey Sky, which was published in 2006 by Whit Press in Seattle.

She is co-founder of Wedocracy, a collaborative socially networked wedding planning startup. In 2012 she married Peter Jacobson.