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Over the past 15 years, we have contributed to advancing change within this system by demonstrating that music education can function not only as enrichment, but as a pathway to leadership and economic opportunity.

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In 2017, we launched My First Job as an early workforce model, creating paid leadership opportunities for youth within the organization. In 2025, we launched Soundworks as a workforce training pathway for justice-affected and transitional aged foster youth, helping redefine what music education can lead to in South LA.

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In 2022 and 2024, we received Infusion Awards from The Lewis Prize for Music, and in 2025 Soundworks was selected as an LA County Department of Economic Opportunity High Road Training Program. These milestones helped expand infrastructure, deepen access, and bring new workforce pathways into communities historically excluded from the creative economy.

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Student outcomes further reflect this progress, with participants winning Grammy Awards in songwriting, advancing to national platforms including The Voice, American Idol, and Broadway tours, and earning admission and scholarships to institutions including Brown University, USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Berklee College of Music, the world’s leading contemporary music institution.

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In 2022, we launched Rock The Block, which now engages more than 3,000 community members annually and has become a platform for community wellbeing and cultural visibility. In 2022, Tanisha Hall was featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, in 2024 Tanisha and WHAA were featured in Disney’s Create Your World series, which has received over 1.5 million views, and Tanisha was honored as a Los Angeles Clippers Community Hero, and in 2026 was recognized as a City of Los Angeles Woman of Impact.

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Together, these accomplishments reflect measurable contributions toward changing how access, opportunity, and workforce pathways function for young people in South LA.