Make It Your Own Awards

Making It Your Own in a Hip Hop World

by Kristen Cambell on 8 Oct 2008 1

 Today's guest blogger, Asad Jafri is the coordinator of Leaders of the New School, a project located in the south side of Chicago that brings together local youth with artists and mentors to address and help resolve community issues through hip hop and urban arts. Leaders of the New School was one of the Final Four grantees in the Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own Awards, and Asad met earlier this week with representatives of the other 20 program finalists.

I'm personally not a fan of generic labels on an entire generation, but if I had to pick a broad term for the generation I fall under, it would be the Hip Hop Generation. I'm part of a generation that is ready to make change happen collectively with the limited resources around us. That also means I was organizing in my community before I knew what community organizing was. 

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