Alvon Griffin has served as an Artist/Coach and percussion teacher for several professional educational outreach programs. Alvon has taught percussion for more than 20 years, using his own “Math Music” program to convey concepts of rhythm via mathematics to a wide array of at risk and underserved young people, including involuntarily committed girls, developmentally challenged adults and juvenile Justice youth. He has created and taught performance based behavior modification and substance abuse programs at PACE, LEAF, Bowling Green, Umatilla, New Beginnings, Youth Arts Corps, and Leslie Peters Half Way House where he uses drumming as a tool to teach anger management. He has taught as a Master Teacher of percussion at the University of South Florida, the University of Central Florida, the University of the University of Central Florida, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Tampa and has performed as a percussionist at varied and numerous venues such as Florida Capital Building and Disney World. He is also an expert in Brazilian Batucada drumming and Native American culture and hosts the Two World Indigenous Radio show on WMNF.