​In 2003, after more than a decade of creating and implementing mentored arts programming with various non-profit organizations throughout the United States, Thomas Dean Kellogg founded The Mentor Artists Playwrights Project (MAPP). The MAPP – Young Native Playwrights Initiative began in 2005. Our goal is to bring professional training, mentorship, and creative education opportunities to underserved indigenous youth, to create a platform for their unique voices, and to bring a greater awareness of these amazing youth and their cultures, which have so much to give to the world at large. Thus far, we have created successful programming with Reservation communities and Urban native centers in Alaska, British Columbia, California, Oregon, and Idaho. Currently, we are expanding, with more development in the process, including more native communities in the Dakotas, Washington State, New Mexico, and Arizona. In 2012 in response to our community partners the MAPP -  Diversity and Inclusion Initiative added many new communities, including refugee, foster care, migrant and LBGTQ groups. In 2018 The Mentor Artists Playwrights Project - MAPP  began expanding our platforms to also include storytelling workshops in Animation and Mask Making which resulted in updating our name to Mentor Artists-MAPP. We are thrilled that our work and partnerships continue to grow. The story lives on…