Hakim Bellamy served as the Inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Albuquerque (2012-2014) and served as the Deputy Director for the Department of Arts & Culture at the City of Albuquerque from 2018 - 2022. Bellamy is a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellow, a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, and Citizen University Civic Seminary Fellow.  With a M.A. in Communications from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and a J.D. from UNM School of Law, Bellamy has held adjunct faculty positions at UNM and the Institute of American Indian Arts and also served as the Creative Writing Chair at New Mexico School for the Arts. A National Poetry Slam Champion, Bellamy has performed his work in at least seven countries and continues to leverage his art to transform his communities.