All Stars Project Youth Programs
All Stars Project, 543 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
About
All Stars Project Youth Programs include talent shows, performance workshops, and other performance activities. The program offers virtual and in-person workshops, including career readiness workshops, development workshops, and a police–community relations program that uses performance, improvisation and conversation. Young people can also take part in paid summer internships through the Development School for Youth.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
The All Stars Project is a privately funded national nonprofit organization with a 40-year history of grassroots organizing and community building in poor neighborhoods. Its mission states: “Through the developmental power of performance we transform the lives of youth from poor and underserved communities in partnership with caring adults, giving everyone the opportunity to grow.” The organization’s leadership team includes Chris Street (President and CEO), Shadae McDaniel (President-Elect), Antoine Joyce-Roach (Senior Vice President/City Leader, ASP of Dallas), Christina DiChiara (Vice President/Office of the President and CEO), Jessica Massad (Chief Operating Officer), Irina Robin (Chief Financial Officer), and Jenny Zak (Chief Development Officer).
The program’s development-through-performance approach has been recognized by leading poverty researchers and community advocates, and its Eight Dimensions of Development have been validated through evaluation by Southern Methodist University’s Center on Research and Evaluation (SMU CORE). Development School for Youth connects young people with business leaders who conduct development workshops and provide paid summer internships, and Development Coaching matches young adults with volunteer coaches from coast to coast based on shared interests and experiences. Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids is an innovative police–community relations program using performance, improvisation and conversation to help inner-city teenagers and police officers build trust and improve their relationship, and Operation Conversation is a bridge-building initiative where adults from diverse communities learn and perform tools that develop empathy, appreciation, active listening and curiosity skills. Performance Lab works with theatre artists and organizations to produce and support cultural events and bridge-building activities that explore human conflict and social relations through performance.
Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids is run by All Stars Project in partnership with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the Newark Police Division (NPD). All Stars partners with caring adults and companies, and teams up with businesses, schools and nonprofits, and All Stars Project and the City of Dallas announced a partnership to create a national model for youth and workforce development through the Dallas Works Summer Internship Program. The organization was awarded the 2015 IACP and Cisco Community Policing Award from The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, in partnership with the NYPD, and received the Simmons Luminary Award from Southern Methodist University for its innovative work to build the field of Afterschool Development.
Alumni describe their experiences in several ways. One alum, Chioma Igwebuike, reports joining the Development School for Youth at 17 as a free career development program connecting her to paid internships, and she is now an Associate in Investment Banking Division Compliance at Goldman Sachs and a board member of ASP of New Jersey. Another alum, Cedric Soglohoun, states that All Stars pushed him to do uncomfortable things like going downtown into large glass buildings and having conversations with people who did not look like him, which he says gave him the ability to stand in spaces where he had been told he could not or should not be. Alum Dwayne Dixon says that when he joined ASP, he experienced the power of performance, that DSY taught him to perform bigger than he thought possible, and that the All Stars Talent Show Network gave him the confidence to uplift other young people like him, and he is now Program Director of ASP of Chicago. Alum Larry Huynh reports that through All Stars he learned to perform confidence and step into spaces he never thought he belonged in, a journey he says brought him to UC Santa Barbara and back to ASP, where he works as Program Associate at ASP of SF Bay Area and Virtual Programs. Alum Emily Munguia says she joined DSY during her sophomore year of college, connected with inspiring leaders, and earned her first internship at AIG, and she now works as Assistant Director of Development at ASP of New York. Alum Avriel Kelly states that All Stars has given her hope, opportunity, confidence and long-lasting relationships, that her first DSY internship opened new doors for her professionally and shaped her trajectory 15 years later, and that her aspiration through the Alumni Leadership Council is to bring what she calls the gift of development to as many young people as possible.
Last updated May 25, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
The All Stars Project is a privately funded national nonprofit organization with a 40-year history of grassroots organizing and community building in poor neighborhoods. Its mission states: “Through the developmental power of performance we transform the lives of youth from poor and underserved communities in partnership with caring adults, giving everyone the opportunity to grow.” The organization’s leadership team includes Chris Street (President and CEO), Shadae McDaniel (President-Elect), Antoine Joyce-Roach (Senior Vice President/City Leader, ASP of Dallas), Christina DiChiara (Vice President/Office of the President and CEO), Jessica Massad (Chief Operating Officer), Irina Robin (Chief Financial Officer), and Jenny Zak (Chief Development Officer).
The program’s development-through-performance approach has been recognized by leading poverty researchers and community advocates, and its Eight Dimensions of Development have been validated through evaluation by Southern Methodist University’s Center on Research and Evaluation (SMU CORE). Development School for Youth connects young people with business leaders who conduct development workshops and provide paid summer internships, and Development Coaching matches young adults with volunteer coaches from coast to coast based on shared interests and experiences. Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids is an innovative police–community relations program using performance, improvisation and conversation to help inner-city teenagers and police officers build trust and improve their relationship, and Operation Conversation is a bridge-building initiative where adults from diverse communities learn and perform tools that develop empathy, appreciation, active listening and curiosity skills. Performance Lab works with theatre artists and organizations to produce and support cultural events and bridge-building activities that explore human conflict and social relations through performance.
Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids is run by All Stars Project in partnership with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the Newark Police Division (NPD). All Stars partners with caring adults and companies, and teams up with businesses, schools and nonprofits, and All Stars Project and the City of Dallas announced a partnership to create a national model for youth and workforce development through the Dallas Works Summer Internship Program. The organization was awarded the 2015 IACP and Cisco Community Policing Award from The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, in partnership with the NYPD, and received the Simmons Luminary Award from Southern Methodist University for its innovative work to build the field of Afterschool Development.
Alumni describe their experiences in several ways. One alum, Chioma Igwebuike, reports joining the Development School for Youth at 17 as a free career development program connecting her to paid internships, and she is now an Associate in Investment Banking Division Compliance at Goldman Sachs and a board member of ASP of New Jersey. Another alum, Cedric Soglohoun, states that All Stars pushed him to do uncomfortable things like going downtown into large glass buildings and having conversations with people who did not look like him, which he says gave him the ability to stand in spaces where he had been told he could not or should not be. Alum Dwayne Dixon says that when he joined ASP, he experienced the power of performance, that DSY taught him to perform bigger than he thought possible, and that the All Stars Talent Show Network gave him the confidence to uplift other young people like him, and he is now Program Director of ASP of Chicago. Alum Larry Huynh reports that through All Stars he learned to perform confidence and step into spaces he never thought he belonged in, a journey he says brought him to UC Santa Barbara and back to ASP, where he works as Program Associate at ASP of SF Bay Area and Virtual Programs. Alum Emily Munguia says she joined DSY during her sophomore year of college, connected with inspiring leaders, and earned her first internship at AIG, and she now works as Assistant Director of Development at ASP of New York. Alum Avriel Kelly states that All Stars has given her hope, opportunity, confidence and long-lasting relationships, that her first DSY internship opened new doors for her professionally and shaped her trajectory 15 years later, and that her aspiration through the Alumni Leadership Council is to bring what she calls the gift of development to as many young people as possible.
Last updated May 25, 2026.
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