Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely, a descendent of Ashkenazi, Scandinavian, and British folk, is an artist, singer-songwriter, communal grief tender, community organizer, facilitator, and ceramicist walking the path of ancestral healing and the reclaiming of lost cultural memories.
 
An ardent student of decolonization and anti-racism, ahlay has trained with generative somatics, Education for Racial Equity, Holistic Resistance, Animas Valley Institute, The Work that Reconnects, Francis Weller, and Laurence Cole. Her community singing projects, including the album WAILS: Songs for Grief, aim to inspire cultural metamorphosis and collective healing.