PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROJECT (PAP) The Pre-Apprenticeship Project (PAP) provides deserving public high school students the chance to work in dynamic career areas through paid Pre-Apprenticeship experiences. Through PAP, students will work in fields that map to 4th Generation Workforce and the Gig Economy.  Area of interest but not excluded are digital media, entertainment, technology, healthcare, and design. The American Apprenticeship Initiative was a […]

The Problem Statement: Students are more capable of creating gig economy opportunities than their institutions can facilitate. Starting with k-5, institutions administrators, instructors and parents are struggling to keep pace with their children’s ability to interpret, create and deploy uses of technology for life, work and play. The time it would take to train the trainers while keeping pace with […]

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By Kevin Clark December  1 Hollywood What holds this country together is invisible to us, we can’t see nor hear it but holy dependent upon for American way of living. What is surprising is that it’s pretty much defenseless, and both Russia and China are developing weaponry to be deployed in space and assault these systems. A CNN special, War […]

The “Gig Economy” Training Series commenced with guest lecturers Evette Vagas, Filiberto Gonzalez, and Kevin Clark presenting to 11-grade students in instructor Aaron Lemos’s Film Magnet program at John F. Kenedy High School, Granada Hills, CA (LAUSD). The Creative Industry Coalition, LAUSD and the Gig Economy Tool Kit will connect relevant training to real opportunities for students to apply linked […]

By Kevin Clark-Beverly Hills The NAACP Theater Awards was deserving of a larger platform, nevertheless with Icons such as Berry Gordy, Lou Gossett Jr. and a host of other thespians turned TV-Film who’s who the thousand or so in attendance saw the roots of Hollywood honored in authentic yet grand fashion.  Below is my video capture (14 clips) from the […]

LOS ANGELES – Nov. 20, 2016 – Kevin Clark– The Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP in partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch (LAUSD) kicked off the first in a series of Career Development Programs , Friday  on the campus of Dorsey High School.  Academy Award Winning Actor Lou Gossett Jr. promoted the event and his afternoon session on […]

Kevin Clark Monday, Oct 17 Los Angeles We at Dakar Foundation are proud to be affiliated with MBK and Michael Smith, and are not surprised at the magnitude of their social impact on the communities of color around the country.  We’re in discussion to have an iteration of “Doing What Works” in Los Angeles County, sometime in the second quarter […]

Dakar Media Academy was in the house, Saturday, October 8th, for the 2nd Annual Oscar Film Summit.  This day long event for high school and college students brought together Academy members and other film industry guests to discuss their professions as well as the paths they took to achieve career success. Wish some of my students could have been there, […]