Chris Henrikson is the founder and executive director of Street Poets Inc., a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that harnesses the healing power of poetry and music to inspire our next generation to write, rap, and dream a new world into being for us all. His work includes facilitating youth initiation retreats and homecoming retreats for California State Prison parolees and serving as producer of the Street Poets Podcast. For more on Street Poets, visit streetpoetsinc.com.