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letsdothis2 ago

Continuing with Worldwide Underground, JP Eaglin is a co-founder: http://worldwideunderground.com/index.html

According to his FB profile, he's friends with Aquilla Kappy and is a Former Founding Member, CTO, Art & Music Dir., Teacher at Green Dot Public Schools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Barr_(educator)

Steve Barr (born 1959) is an educator, political activist, and author, best known as a co-founder of Rock the Vote and founder of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school organization in Los Angeles, California. He led Green Dot from 2000 to 2009. Barr also founded Future is Now Schools, a non-profit school organization that works on reforming schools from within.

Barr worked on the presidential campaigns of two Democratic Party candidates in the 1980s and served as Finance Chairman of the California Democratic Party. After having worked on school reform for many years, in June 2016 Steve Barr announced his candidacy for the 2017 Los Angeles mayoral election, challenging incumbent mayor Eric Garcetti.[1][2] Garcetti won with an overwhelming majority.

Barr was influenced by meeting Reed Hastings, education activist and founder of Netflix, and Don Shalvey, the founder of California's first charter school, the San Carlos Learning Center, in Northern California. At an event in 1997, President Bill Clinton announced a federally funded public charter school-grant program.

As a result, Barr founded his flagship organization, Green Dot Public Schools, and opened his first charter high school, Animo Leadership High School in Lennox, California in 2000. He later opened subsequent schools, including Animo Inglewood in 2002 and Animo Oscar de la Hoya in Boyle Heights in 2004. By the end of Barr's involvement at Green Dot, his organization was operating 20 public schools under his auspice. He left Green Dot in 2009.

Rock the Vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Vote

Rock the Vote is a non-profit organization, progressive-aligned group in the United States whose stated mission is "to engage and build the political power of young people."[2]

The organization was founded in 1990 by Virgin Records America Co-Chairman Jeff Ayeroff, to encourage young people to vote.[3] It is geared toward increasing voter turnout among voters ages 18 to 24.[4][5] Rock the Vote is known for its celebrity spokespeople and its partnership with MTV