Hip Hop and the Art of Peace Education, Inc. has a mission of creating art for impact, cultivating a culture of peace, and empowering survivor leadership in the arts! We envision a world where survivor leaders have the economic freedom and social support to become professional artists, and role models! We produce art, media, and performing arts experiences that empower women and girls in society at large. Thanks for joining us! Welcome to (HOPE)! ꨄ︎ Hip Hop and the Art of Peace Education, Inc. (HOPE) ꨄ︎ is holistic, imaginative, and practical in its approach, to dismantling human trafficking through an arts and culture based organization! With four core values of Honesty, Originality, Pioneering & Empowering, this spells HOPE ꨄ︎ for survivor leaders and allies invested in making an impact! We are local and global, valuing diversity, unity, creativity, achievement, teamwork, inspiration, optimism, and nature.

Saylove is an Honorary International Artist of Nicaragua and holds a M.A. in Peace Education (Human Rights), at The University for Peace in Costa Rica. A Writer/Emcee, she published her first book on the interconnectedness of peace education and hip hop culture, in 2011. A member of Transcend Art Peace Network, Society for Ethnomusicology, Survivor Alliance, as well as the National Survivor Network, Saylove organized to Free Sara Kruzan and to recover missing FL girls, prior to founding, Hip Hop and the Art of Peace Education, providing weekly webinars, hip hop, and poetry engagements!

Hip Hop and the Art of Peace Education, Vol. 1

Introducing the six petals of peace education (personal peace, environmental care, attitudes & values education, multicultural education, human rights education, and disarmament education), in the context of hip hop’s five foundational elements: knowledge, deejaying, emceeing, b-girling, and graffiti art. (Costa Rica, 2011.)

Our Pilot Program Has Delivered:

90 Youth

In 2020-2023, we engaged 18 youth each year. Increasingly, we’ve engaged 90+ unique youth!

100’s of Art

In 5 years of activities, we’ve created 100’s of unique art pieces! 1000’s of practice sessions!

104 Webinars

From 2023-2024, Project Starship hosted: 104 webinars! 52 more are scheduled within 2025!

334 Workbooks

From 2020-2024, we served 147+ participants, mailing out 334+ workbooks/journals for free!

2 Curriculum

We started with our 2011 curriculum in 2020, adding Project Starship’s curriculum in 2023!

3 Performances

We’re slowly rolling out live performances, to raise awareness beyond our virtual program!

HOPE Today!

Your generous contribution equals tangible results! For 15 years, we were a grassroots operation without funding. While we made an incredible impact in the reduced sentencing of survivors, and in the recovery of missing girls, our resources and capacity were limited. With your support, we’re now able to scale our efforts reaching hundreds, if not thousands of youth with our arts-based prevention education curriculum. With your donation, of just $25, you’re purchasing one workbook for an at-risk youth. With $100, you’re providing one child with an annual curriculum. Star donors contributing $1,000 or more, cover the operational cost of one weekly webinar! Help us reach our goal of raising $52K+ for each program (104K combined) to expand the reach of our two unique arts-based programs, this 2025! Thank you for supporting our mission of (HOPE) empowering survivor leadership in the arts!

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Starlight Program

“Survivors Taking Action Representing Leadership In Global (anti-) Human Trafficking,” or Project Starlight, aims to prevent human trafficking through survivor-led hip hop music, creative storytelling, and poetic performances. Affirming the transformative power of hip hop in creating connections and building trust between our storytellers and audience members, Starlight is curated and crafted to build self-esteem, confidence, and resilience in our participants. Fostering healing, amplifying survivor voices, all while raising public awareness, Project Starlight challenges prevailing misconceptions surrounding human trafficking, as well as the images of women in hip hop!

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Starship Program

“Survivor Training, Art, Rhetoric, Self-Help, and Individual Planning,” Project Starship is our unique weekly webinar series launched in 2023 and piloted in 2024, along with the generous support of The Administration of Children and Families ATLIS Project. Starship Program provides Starship Almanacs and Starship Journals, as well as our weekly art-based webinars, to human trafficking survivors and at-risk girls, in DJJ, foster care, those aging out, or in extended foster care. Our program fills gaps with services and identifies the programming needs, of our focus population! We’re working to expand our program statewide, or nationally. To partner with us, request more info!

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