Jason Tom is an award-winning Chinese American beatboxer, entrepreneur, and mentor based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. He founded the Human Beatbox Academy to reach out to Hawaii's youth and communities. The Human Beatbox Academy is a Hawaii beatbox school and group based out of Kakaako at the Diverse Art Center. Tom has performed for TEDx Talk conferences in 2009 and 2011. He was also a First Thursdays' Hawaii Slam 2012 Grand Poetry Slam Finalist.Tom perpetuates the art of vocal percussion throughout the state of Hawaii with live performances, competitions, poetry slams, school tours, beatbox workshops and classes. His YouTube video dubbed "Jason Tom from Hawaii" went number one on the Beatbox Battle TV network.