Makeba Hall Wilson

Makeba Hall Wilson is the Program Associate at African Voices and a graduate of SUNY New Paltz’s Black Studies program. A teaching artist with the SU-CASA Creative Aging program, she guides older adults through beadwork as a practice of reflection, memory, and connection.
As a spoken word artist known as Calypso, she transforms language into ritual, exploring healing, softness, expressions of the heart. She is also the founder of Sincerely Calypso, a spiritually led adornment practice where beadwork becomes ceremony, intention is woven into every piece, and each creation is offered as an act of beauty, ancestral memory, and care.