Funds would be used to design and implement a culturally specific Youth Arts Education Program for 250 BIPOC youth, ages 6-14, in three San Francisco public schools that serve students in neighborhoods in the lower two percentile of the California HPI. Master artists from the BIPOC communities of which we are of, by and for will teach the performing traditions (and evolving traditions) of the Afro-Latinx diaspora. Students will also have opportunities to perform in schools, at community events and festivals throughout the Bay Area and in historically marginalized neighborhoods. This Program extends the reach and impact of 30 years of our work in BIPOC, Latinx, and African-American communities, which are under increasing economic and political duress, further limiting their access to cultural programs. This is the first culturally specific arts program in these schools.