A Los Angeles nonprofit · Founded 2020
Storytelling as a way of healing.
Kind Kulture was founded by Dydine Umunyana Anderson, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. We are building the Kind Kulture Institute, a permanent home in Los Angeles for survivor testimony and human dignity.
What we do. What we are building.
Our founder survived a genocide when she was a little girl. For more than ten years she has told her story to students, and more than 100,000 of them have listened. They learn to listen, to care, and to stand up for each other.
A home in Los Angeles for the stories of survivors: photographs, voices, letters, objects. Real things you can see and hold. Most students will never visit a memorial in Rwanda. Here, the history comes to them.
Who we are →
“One’s own life experiences are not theirs to keep, but ours to teach.”
Stories in Color: A Human Dignity Exhibition
The founding exhibition.
A survivor-led traveling exhibition and living archive, opening in Los Angeles in Spring 2027. Stories in Color travels until it comes home. When it does, the Kind Kulture Institute opens its permanent doors.
Inside Stories in Color →Three ways to be part of this today.
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Dear Humanity arrives every Sunday: a letter from Dydine on survival, healing and what it means to be human.
Subscribe to Dear Humanity →Give
A gift of any size, once or monthly, helps build the institution. No gift is too small to be part of this founding.
Make a gift →Book Dydine
Bring Dydine to your school, university, company or conference to speak on survival, memory and what it takes to rebuild.
Inquire about speaking →On the horizon
This is the founding
Stand with us.
$50 helps preserve an hour of survivor testimony.
$750 brings a storytelling session to a classroom that cannot pay for one.
Any monthly gift makes you part of the Founding Circle, the people who were here before the doors opened.
The survivors who carry these stories are aging, and testimony not gathered now is lost.
Kind Kulture is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 85-0780571. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The Kind Kulture Letter
One letter, once a month.
Stories from the work, news from the Institute, and the quiet ways you can help.
Free. Leave anytime. For Dydine's Sunday letters, visit Dear Humanity.