HELP MAKE HOMEBOY MEDIA A BEACON OF HOPE & POWERFUL VOICE FOR CHANGE BY SUPPORTING OUR HOMEGROWN TALENT
Pictured: Homeboy Media on location with Fabian Debora artist, Executive Director Homeboy Art Academy, at the “Cara de Vago” exhibit.
MISSION
Homeboy Media stands to support the internal creative voices of the Homeboy Industries community, propel our cultural impact of hope and transformation through our homegrown talent, and protect and promote the one and only IP source that is Homeboy Industries.
Homeboy Industries is poised to expand our mission by championing and evolving our voices through Homeboy Media. We decide the stories, personalities, and moments AND feature a protective (legal and entertainment industry negotiated) layer, ensuring equity for our creators.
As a seamless extension of the Homeboy brand, Homeboy Media purposefully creates across all forms of entertainment and media while protecting internal Intellectual Property, safeguarding HBI’s culture and image, and ensuring fidelity to the Homeboy philosophy.
By leveraging Homeboy Industries’ unique expertise and the organization’s global awareness as the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world, Homeboy Media creates sustainable revenue streams while furthering the mission of transformation and empowerment for individuals impacted by gang culture and incarceration.
VISION
We have set our sights on unlocking the doors to employment in the $5B creative economy of Los Angeles to tell our stories with our voices, music, and art. We envision above and below-the-line careers that develop the multi-faceted people within our world to connect to the universal values of kinship, resilience and transformation.
Homeboy Media
Homeboy Industries has a longstanding history of empowering individuals through job training, education, and support services, helping them to re-enter society with dignity and hope. Homeboy Media aims build on this legacy by creating a platform for storytelling, artistic expression, and innovative media projects that reflect our community’s resilience and potential.
Homeboy Industries is poised to expand our mission by championing and evolving our voices through Homeboy Media. We decide the stories, personalities, moments, and feature a protective (legal and entertainment industry negotiated) layer, ensuring equity for our creators.
Pictured: Jose Arellano, Vice President of Programs at Homeboy Industries during a recent podcast recording.
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Projects in Development
THE LEGEND OF CARA DE VAGO
Follow Fabian Debora, homegrown leader, Founder / Executive Director of the Homeboy Art Academy and 2024 recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, as he takes his lauded show, Cara De Vago, to Rome.
HECTOR + POOHKA MEET THE WORLD
Join homegrown leader and Associate Executive Director Hector Verdugo as he shares his story and impact through the adrenaline-filled, globe-trotting experiences he brings to Homeboy Industries trainees. Mentoring them during their foray into the world of possibilities outside of gangs and incarceration, witness trainees jump out of planes, hit the slopes and waterski. Co-starring Poohka, who is a longstanding member of the Homeboy family, hijinks will ensure as they hit the road.
FROM BOYLE HEIGHTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Experience the impact of Homeboy Industries with simultaneous views from Homeboy Industries Founder, Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., and the Homeboy community on Bruno Street as he receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Father Mark Torres, Shirley Torres, Jose Arellano
Homeboy Media + Talent Inquiries
Welcome to Homeboy Media! Please share you info below to get in contact and stay in touch with us. Inquire below to book Expert Speakers, hire Talent, onboard Storyline Consultants for your upcoming project. We look forward to connecting with you.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Helmed by the Homeboy Advisory Management team, Homeboy Media also benefits from the gracious support and guidance of an external, 20-person strong Advisory Committee comprised of top entertainment, media, and creative professionals including current and former leaders at NBC Universal, XPRIZE, TED, Catch Light Studios, CBS Global Distribution, and award-winning writers / producers behind some of entertainment’s biggest hits.