Hakim Bellamy served as both the Inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Albuquerque and the Deputy Director for the Department of Arts & Culture at the City of Albuquerque from 2018 through 2022. An award-winning published author, Bellamy is a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow (2017), Citizen University Civic Seminary Fellow (2020), and a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Global Fellow (2023). Now a licensed attorney, Bellamy has served New Mexicans as both a legislative analyst on the Consumer and Public Affairs Committee in the New Mexico State Legislature and as a legal fellow for the Honorable Congresswoman Teresa Leger-Fernandez in her D.C. office on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. He is the immediate past chair of the One Albuquerque Fund and a founding member of the New Mexico Black Education Act Advisory Council. www.hakimbellamy.com