For over 20 years, we have worked to keep young people off the streets by giving them positive and creative social alternatives to drugs, teen pregnancy, gang violence, and suicide. We started by teaching hip hop dance in afterschool programs and quickly found that our students thrived but needed more. Our work grew to include financial education, vocational, life & social skills training, entrepreneurship, system navigation services and emergency resources. We couple the arts with real-world skill development and enthusiastic empowerment. We have witnessed explosive academic growth and powerful transformations of entire families. Many of our families face poverty, hunger, and a systematic lack of opportunity, so our daily work includes financial education, life and social skills training, and entrepreneurship. We help to inspire members to maintain a long term professional focus while filling the gaps in resources that systemically exist in vulnerable, high-risk, low and no resiliency communities. Our current large-scale, out of the box holistic programs have been tested in communities devastated by lack and have already yielded successful record-breaking results that demanded the recognition of acclaimed business leaders like Forbes. Tamaira “Miss Tee” Sandifer, is the founder, and CEO of Studio T Arts – Raised in Richmond, CA to a single mother in a family of six children, represents the extreme minority. She experienced, firsthand, the devastation the war on drugs had on the black culture. Miss Tee overcame the struggles associated with the war on drugs within her family and poverty, to become a, “Forbes, The Culture 50 Champion.” She was selected by Forbes because her organization “models business excellence” and “also uplift Black and Brown communities through her crafts and philanthropic efforts”. Her program graduates have traveled the globe working with artists like: Justin Beiber, JLO, Usher, Brittany Spears, Usher, Rihanna, Beyonce and many others.