Frederick “Wood” Delahoussaye is a poet, producer, performer, director, arts administrator, and activist whose purpose and passion is Black liberation.

He is Chief Creative Officer of Ashé Cultural Arts Center and currently serves on the National Advisory Board of Imagining America and the Board of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Wood is a John O’Neal Cultural Arts Fellow and a Tulane Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship Community Leader. He is the recipient of the Asante Foundation’s Cultural Ambassador Award for Performance Art, National Performance Network’s Mentorship and Leadership Award, and the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ Servant Leader Award.