08/11/2022
Meet Black Wall Street Music Collective artist, Jerica D. Wortham.
Jerica is a Tulsa native. She is a best-selling author and award-winning spoken word artist. She has been writing and performing her poetry since a very young age. In May of 2012, Jerica founded J’Parlé LLC, and started J’Parlé Literary Magazine. This endeavor gathered artists from all around the world, and provided a platform to those that were in some instances more comfortable with the pen than the mic. The mission: to give every voice a chance to be heard. In 2013, she was presented with the opportunity to host her very first live show — J Parle' Live was born!
She is an author, publisher, business coach, curator, BBC Radio writer/producer, bLERDS web series executive producer, humanitarian and philanthropist. In October of 2014, she founded the J’Parlé Scholarship fund where she was able to award local students and adults with funding to continue or begin pursuing their education. Recently, Jerica began her work as the Program Director for the Greenwood Art Project. Her accolades include countless Poetry Slam Championships, featured in the New York Times as the 2020 Black Wall Street Spoken Word Artist of the Year, YWCA’s 2021 Woman of the Year, and the Pinnacle Award for Arts and Humanity. When she is not working, or teaching inmates with the Department of Corrections, she enjoys spending time with her husband Webster and their two sons, Solomon and Jonah.
