Meet Rejjia Camphor
About Me
Rejjia Camphor is a Transdisciplinary Eclectic Artist, Organizer and Teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. She currently serves as a Creative Writing Instructor for Writers In Baltimore Schools (WBS) and is the Founder of the environmental community organizing project, Sister Stream Catcher. Recently in July 2024, she acquired her first art studio in Baltimore at the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower.
Accomplishments
Rejjia has received numerous accolades and grants for her artistic, leadership, research and volunteer service work including both Silver and Gold Key from Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2015 and 2016, a Distinguished Finalist Bronze Medallion from the Prudential Spirit of Community Award in 2016, a Certificate of Ethical Leadership and an Ethics and The Common Good Project Grant from Hampshire College in 2020, two Youth As Resources Grants, in 2011 and 2021, a Maryland Philanthropy Network Grant in 2023 and a Get Ready Grant from CERF+ in 2024.
She has been featured in several online and online publications such as Charm in 2016, Women of Color Leadership Network (WOCLN) in 2017, VoyageBaltimore in 2022, Baltimore Beat in 2020 and 2023, the Afro-American Newspaper in 2023 and the Brown Sugar Literary Magazine in 2021. She has been showcased in exhibitions and festivals across Maryland including the Red Bull Amaphiko Festival at Impact Hub Baltimore in 2017, the Empathy to Solidarity: Activism Through the Media Arts Exhibit at Triangle Art Studios in Bethesda in 2021, the Born in Baltimore Film and Photography Festival at Creative Alliance in 2022, the Baltimore Youth Film Arts Screenings at Johns Hopkins University from 2021 to 2023. She is also a co-creator of the Soul of the Butterfly: Chicory Magazine and Baltimore's Black Arts Activism Exhibit traveling across Enoch Pratt Free Library locations in MD from 2022 to 2023.
Her public speaking engagements and performances include The Doni Glover Radio Show's Empower Hour in 2009, the Walters Art Museum's MLK Festival in 2015, CityLit’s Baltimore Writers Resist Reading in 2017, Baltimore City’s Youth Poet Laureate Competition in 2018, Hampshire College’s Commencement in 2020, Black Writers Read in 2020, Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership’s Boundary Spanners panel in 2022, UMBC’s Imperative Inclusion Teaching Humanities Lab in 2022, Baltimore Green Space’s Poetry in the Park event in 2023, Vital Matters Global Waters Dance event in 2023, several Meeting Ground Project events from 2022-2024 and CityLit’s 24th Annual Festival and Maryland Citizens for the Arts Summit in 2024. She was also a judge for DewMore Poetry's Annual Youth Poet Laureate Competition in 2023 and 2024.
