COMPANYPROFILE

EMERGE is a community-based organization that uses Hip Hop culture to put the community back into college through college readiness, financial literacy, professional development, socio-emotional skills building opportunities. We envision a culture where Black and Brown youth are educated to live, not just to survive. We believe that Hip Hop has the power to motivate, instruct, and develop transformative leaders and to build coalitions with community action groups that will make access to college, employment, workforce skills development more equitable and available

Mission

Our mission is to develop and produce future leaders from marginalized communities using Hip Hop to raise social awareness and to affect more equal and just transformation of society.

Vision

We envision a culture where underserved youth are educated to live, not just to survive We believe that Hip Hop has the power to motivate, instruct, and develop transformative leaders and to build coalitions with community action groups that will make access to housing, education, employment, and career readiness resources more equitable and available.

Values

As a community-based literacy-building organization, we are guided by the core values of:

Literacy is the path to freedom

Inspiring community/college/industry collaboration

Building sustainable communities is vital to the survival of the next generation

Social and contextual awareness leads to social transformation

Success come through developing knowledge of self