510akland/Elevate Oakland

To supplement and enhance music and performing arts programs at Castlemont and Fremont High Schools and create a program at McClymonds High School. Representing a continuing collaboration between 51Oakland and Elevate Oakland, an organization founded by jazz club maven Yoshi Akiba, educator Jason Hofmann, and the Elevate Hope Foundation, created by recording artist and pop icon Sheila “E” Escovedo and her business partner Lynn Mabry,