Type 2 diabetes now affects US children at alarming rates.1,2 Over the last decade, rates have tripled in American Indian, doubled in African American, and increased 25% to 50% in Asian, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic youth.3 A novel arts and public health campaign is now helping young people of color transform themselves from being targets of metabolic risk to active agents of change, by shifting the conversation about diabetes toward “the bigger picture”: its social and environmental drivers.