About Me

Bio:  Nekesha Bell de Castañon hailed from Michigan in 2006 to California.  She is an advocate for special needs and developmentally delayed children.  A lifetime Xicana & ethnic poet with five self-published books, past assistant coach for children’s sports, bilingual in Spanish to the best of her ability, storyteller, and grew up in the Igbo tribe of Nigeria, here in America.  She is a lifetime survivor of domestic and sexual violence. She knows the glue it takes to hold it together. Her many cultural bloodlines including growing up in-a then-small town-country called Turlock, California, helped her to become vibrantly colorful and cross cultural due to many different adversities.  She has been a lead organizer in different venues for over 17 years:  Political Strategist, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunity, Women Rights, Affirmative Action, Migrant/ Immigration Rights; currently, Human Rights on a global platform, and Indigenous Rights.  She is spiritual; therefore, most of what she does and who she is comes from within. She is a performing artist, entrepreneur, conference presenter, and mother of two children who attend school in Sacramento City Unified School District. She adamantly advocates for the youth, children, and performs yearly with them.  Nekesha is a graduate student, volunteers weekly to help children with literacy, a member of the local School Site Council, District Advisory Committee, Parent Engagement, and Parent Membership under DAC.  Nekesha helps families in crisis, locally and in other states, by lending a listening ear and resources that will get them results. For the last six years, she has been a voice for men in prison, gangs, and other violence that begins to affect them at a young age.  She believes that by sharing an adult male’s poetry and stories; she is able to voice the victim’s stories and raise awareness.  She lives life to the fullest and currently resides in Sacramento, California.  Nekesha can be contacted at:  diosadevida@hotmail.com or you catch her on her radio show at:  www.blogtalkradio.com/diosadevida