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A day-long event for K-12 educators, Rutgers students and faculty, artists, and community leaders to learn strategies for promoting the educational values of orality, storytelling, multilingualism, and community engagement through a Global Hip Hop framework, along with perspectives on youth movements and practices throughout the world.

A concert featuring RMS, ResKp, Where’s Nasty, and Gunman Xuman will follow.

Keynote Speakers:

Lauren Leigh Kelly (Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education, Rutgers Graduate School of Education)
Marjoris Regus (Assistant Professor of Music Education, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts)

Featured Artists:

Xuman (Rapper; Senegal), Safiath (Singer and Rapper; Niger), Laura Concieçao (Slam Poet; Brazil), Jason Almeida (DJ; Providence, RI), Angelique Germain (Filmmaker; Canada)

Community Organizations:

Hip Hop Youth Research and Activism, University of Orange: Education for Equity (Orange, NJ), ARTIS Love and Action (Hoboken, NJ)

Research Perspectives:

Crystal Endsley Taylor (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY), Rabani Garg (UPenn), Hugo Bujon (Rutgers Camden), Lynne Stillings (Ashinaga USA), Ousseina Alidou (Rutgers University), Brendan Kibbee (Rutgers University)