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Stoked March Membership Drive NYC - LA
- Posted on 03.05.09
Related causes: Community, Youth
Stoked Mentoring has launched our first ever Membership Drive. Become a member of Stoked today and help us expand the mentoring & action sports opportunities in Los Angeles & New York City. We hope you'll consider showing pride in your community by supporting Stoked!
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Stoked March Membership Drive
- Posted on 03.03.09
Related causes: Community, Youth
We are very pleased to share exciting news with you! Thanks to our generous supporters, Stoked teens in New York and Los Angeles are thriving!
As a result, we're launching our first March Membership Drive, a way for you to get further connected and engaged in Stoked's mission of developing successful teens through action sports and mentoring.
This year Stoked will provide over one hundred inner city teens in New York & Los Angeles with the tools to succeed, the confidence to believe in themselves, and a plan to be a happy and productive adult.
Our first group of youth have finished high school. All of them earned their diploma and are attending college - in a high school district where only 40% of students graduate.
Your membership will allow us to serve even more youth in the upcoming year!
Without your ongoing support, we wouldn't be able to help these kids graduate, attend college, and have positive relationships.
Zaidy, a Stoked alum, is completing her f...Read More -
Interview with Kathie Armstrong of the Quiksilver Foundation
- Posted on 12.29.08
Kathie graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Psychology and then went on to earn her J.D. degree from the University of Southern California Law School. She practiced law in private practice for several years before joining the Rockwell Corporation as an Assistant General Counsel. Following a professional hiatus during which she raised her three children, Kathie became an in-house attorney for Quiksilver, focusing on trademark and intellectual property matters. In 2004, Kathie became the first Executive Director of the Quiksilver Foundation, where she currently oversees its management and administration. Active in community affairs, Kathie is also a board member of the Humanitarian Fund for the Surf Industry Manufacturer’s Association. The Quiksilver Foundation is one of our earliest and biggest supporters since we were founded in 2005. Visit them at www.quiksilverfoundation.org
Stoked: What are you Stoked about these days?
Kathie: Personally, I am in a really great pla...Read More -
Interview with Street Artist Abe Lincoln Jr.
- Posted on 12.29.08
Abe Lincoln Jr. grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and came up in the hardcore punk scene in the early 80’s. Skateboarding & punk rock were the only things that mattered to him as a teenager and those two influences shaped who he is today for better and for worse. Abe Jr. spent a great deal of time being one of those “Troubled Youths” you read about. By pure luck he made it through all that when a lot of people he knew didn’t. Now he’s an Artist and Designer who’s been grinding for a long time, first with Street Art and now Pop Art. He’d rather create something that makes a person laugh or stop and say “WTF?!!?” than impress art critics. Abe Jr. was a contributor to our Stoked Sessions LA event is an overall great guy! We look forward to collaborating together in the future. Check out his site Girls Bike.
Stoked: What is your definition of success?
Abe Jr: Success is how you feel at the end of a project. I don’t measure success by how much money or props I get at the end of t...Read More -
Interview with Designer Christian Acker
- Posted on 12.29.08
Originally form Central Jersey, Christian Acker was raised on a healthy diet of Soccer, Skating and eventually Punk Rock and Graffiti. From an early age he knew he wanted a life in the visual arts. Christian currently is an art director for Zoo York and does his side work through Adnauseum and Handselecta. Christian also art directed our Zoo York x Mike Giant x Stoked Deck & Tee and is an inspiration about overcoming obstacles. We’re pleased to have him speak to us.
Stoked: What are you Stoked about these days?
Christian: Right now I’m really stoked on early animated cartoons. Like 1930’s to 1960’s stuff. Betty Boop, Popeye, stuff like that.
Stoked: What is your definition of success?
Christian: Doing what I love everyday. Loving what I do everyday.
Stoked: What inspires you to do what you do?
Christian: So much. I don’t think I ever considered doing anything else. Design and art are just the means by which I think and process the world around me. Design is a way of comm...Read More
