Independent Artist Magazine October/November 2013 | Page 29

FEDERATION OF REGGAE MUSIC

Empress Asia

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llison Asare is a graduate of Centennial College in Canada

who majored in the Community and Justice Services program.
She is a published poet by profession who is known by the name
is Empress Aisha. Allison is an advocate of the arts and wants
to share her work and talent with the world. She is a recipient
of Centennial College’s Global Citizen scholarship Award which
she received in January 2013. The significance of this award is to
acknowledge her leadership of social justice and how she models equitable
principles. Born in Toronto, Canada she is of Ghanaian-Jamaican parentage.
Faced with a culture shock and challenges as to where she fits in Allison
knows that she belongs wherever she can share experiences.
Allison Asare has contributed to artistic insight through poetry with the Ministry
Of Children and Youth Services, Youth Justice Services in Ontario to help with
a report for youth reintegration protocols. She created a spoken word video
as well as the strong implementation of the ideas that she contributed. She
created a poem called “Opening a New Door” about reducing the stigmas

between councillors and clients