Cultural Kultivators - Rudy Corpuz Jr.

This week’s special guest brings decades of experience working with at-risk youth in San Francisco: Rudy Corpuz Jr.! Founder and Executive Director of United Playaz, a violence prevention program that serves the youth, Rudy has dedicated his life to the rehabilitation and development of previously incarcerated folks and our youth as an ex-felon.   In this episode, Rudy shares with us how he got started at Balboa High School as a gang prevention counselor for Filipino youth and his first major case and inspiration for United Playaz: breaking up a multiracial brawl. He also shares with us the challenges of healing a community he once harmed, answering the call to service by keeping power in the people’s hands and minds.    As we play the long game in building generational abundance, Rudy’s vision embraces ex-felons and the previously incarcerated by giving them job opportunities and a community to come back to. Join us this week to learn more about Rudy’s approach to teaching self discipline and cultural history to our young kings and queens of the future.    It takes the Hood to save the Hood. Visit unitedplayaz.org to learn more!   WHAT IS BALAY KREATIVE? BALAY KREATIVE is a pop-up Filipino-American arts hub in SOMA Pilipinas, San Francisco, California. EXPLORE BALAY KREATIVE Website: www.balaykreative.com Instagram: @balaykreative  Facebook.com/balaykreative Kumu: @balaykreative