Navasha Daya-Hill
Neighborhood: Cherry Hill
“We need to make sure we are not limiting ourselves from connection based upon biases that we may have. We need to stay connected as human beings and really be human, and maintain our humanity.”
Navasha Daya-Hill is a Baltimore transplant by way of Cleveland, OH, and works as an ‘artist with a purpose’. Navasha is Co-Founder & Director of the Healing & Performing Arts of the Youth Resiliency Institute (YRI), an organization under the umbrella of Fusion Partnerships, Inc. Since 2010, the YRI has been developing, researching, implementing and evaluating culturally responsive community arts, introduced emerging artists of all ages living in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill community and throughout South Baltimore to high quality culturally, responsive arts education and opportunity, and serving as a vital junction box allowing for networking, connecting, collaborating, and awareness of community assets and arts programming throughout South Baltimore. Navasha’s work also has provided mentoring, training, and an array of family-centered services to children, youth, families, and elders to create, nurture, and support a new generation of effective, community-based leaders. Navasha also serves as co-director of the YRI’s annual Cherry Hill Arts & Music Waterfront Festival held at Middle Branch Park.
Navasha is an exceptionally gifted and seasoned recording and performing artist, singer/songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, choreographer, curator, artist mentor, and committed cultural arts activist. Navasha serves as a Rites of Passage Facilitator for the National Rites of Passage Institute and is also an ordained interfaith minister, who holds sacred the beauty of all spiritual paths, faiths, and cultures of the world.
