Youth and Politics

The co-hosts speak politics with the Honorable George Martinez is the Founder/Chairman of the Global Block Foundation and an award-winning artist, activist, educator and a political pioneer of the Hip-Hop community. He is the first Hip-Hop artist/activist elected to a political office in the United States and is a former Assistant Director of Intergovernmental Relations for the Office of the New York State Attorney General. George is a former Doctoral Fellow of Political Science at the City University of New York and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Pace University. George is also a founding board member of both the Hip-Hop Association (H2A) and the Blackout Arts Collective not for- profit organizations and since 2007, he has served as a US Cultural Envoy for the United States Department of State.