BUMP's Mission is to foster excellence and agency in youth using the cultural assets of African diasporic music. We offer youth enrichment programming, instrumental, and vocal ensembles that build musical proficiency, cultural knowledge, heritage knowledge, and resilience. Let’s break this down!
The seeds of African expressive practice have taken root globally - wherever people of African descent live. From those seeds grow the musics that shape us in so many ways - spirituals, jazz, blues, gospel, hip hop, and the list goes on…
We build our programs and teaching approaches around the sounds, practices, communities, histories and meanings of music of the global African Diaspora. We mine these traditions for a wealth of artistic, cognitive and social capital.
When youth recognize the richness of their cultural assets, and acquire its cultural capital, they can build on these assets and orchestrate their own future. This is what we at BUMP are all about!
The seeds of African expressive practice have taken root globally - wherever people of African descent live. From those seeds grow the musics that shape us in so many ways - spirituals, jazz, blues, gospel, hip hop, and the list goes on…
We build our programs and teaching approaches around the sounds, practices, communities, histories and meanings of music of the global African Diaspora. We mine these traditions for a wealth of artistic, cognitive and social capital.
When youth recognize the richness of their cultural assets, and acquire its cultural capital, they can build on these assets and orchestrate their own future. This is what we at BUMP are all about!
Bump's Enrichment Artist Team
The B.E.A.T.
Georgiary Bledsoe FOunder |
Joy Harrell Goff Executive Director |
Board of Directors |
Council of Advisors |
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Latishia Futrell, Chair
Calleen Herbert, Treasurer Ada Milenkovic Brown, Secretary Hamid Nabavi, Director Phil Cook, Director |
Dr. Georgiary Bledsoe
Managing Principal; Baobao Tree LLC Kim Lawson-Jenkins Nuclear Regulatory Commission Emily Limerick, MD John Hopkins University The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery Dean of Duke University Chapel Dr. Sonya White Hope Boston Public Schools |
Our DONORS Our SUSTAINERS
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Afro‐Futurist $1000+
Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Anonymous Black Atlantic $100 ‐ $999 Kary Bledsoe Abby Lublin Sampson and Lizzie Harrell Obe Ford Jr. Sally Franz Gloria Davis BUMP Community $1 - $99 Stephanie Aspinwall Nathan Bowles Martha Cameron Shantell Chambliss Serene Charles Tanner Cline Sneha Coltrane Patricia Crisp Gary Duggan Austine Model Amelia Nixon James Mirabello Susan Sanford Henny Van der poll Hamid Nabavi Shade Shakur Lucy Williams Anonymous |
Mabray C. Andrews
Kathryn Bradley Reynolds Chapman Latishia Futrell Liam Hanson Calleen Herbert Anonymous Anonymous |
* Council of Advisors + Board of Directors ~ Recurring Donor ^ 3+ Consecutive years
Our Sponsors & Partners
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