James Kass is an award-winning writer, educator, producer and media maker. He is also the Founder & Executive Director of Youth Speaks Inc., and is widely credited with helping to launch the youth spoken word movement, working with tens of thousands of young people from across the country -- and helping launch over 50 programs nationwide -- to help them find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as leaders of societal change.
Recorded April 2, 2011 at The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, California.
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