African-American and Hispanic students are underrepresented in most gifted programs. Yet a program for gifted middle school students thrives within a historically-rich, low socio-economic, and culturally diverse community. This session shares promising practices and effective strategies for identifying untapped learning talent from diverse populations, recruiting learning talent to the program, servicing, and retaining high-ability students through the middle school years. Participants leave with practical ideas to implement with their programs and ways to approach and serve underrepresented populations.