About Kind Kulture
Who we are, and why.
Kind Kulture is a Los Angeles nonprofit founded in 2020 by a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. We use storytelling as a way of healing, and we are building the Kind Kulture Institute, a permanent home for survivor testimony and human dignity.
What we are here to do.
We help people understand the human condition through lived experience, so that kindness, love, hope and empathy prevail. Dehumanization is learned, and it can be unlearned, one room at a time.
Our mission
To preserve survivor testimony and use storytelling to help people understand themselves, and one another.
Our vision
A world where stories cultivate empathy, reflection and human dignity.
Our philosophy
Mirror · Bridge · Change. See yourself honestly. Recognize one another. Leave differently than you arrived.
Our reach
Stories travel. So does healing.
The work began in Rwanda. Today it reaches people in three countries.
Where it began
Rwanda
Our first work began in Kigali in 2012. Kwibuka, the annual remembrance of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, is still at the center of our year.
Where the Institute is built
United States
Home of the Kind Kulture Institute, in Los Angeles. Our programs reach schools, universities and communities across the country.
A partner in peace
Colombia
Working alongside communities who are building memory and peace after long conflict.
The founders
Dydine & Alex Anderson.
Dydine Umunyana Anderson
Founder & President
Dydine is the founder and president of Kind Kulture, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the author of Embrace Life: How I Survived the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda. She is a permanent speaker at the Museum of Tolerance and has carried her work to USC, Harvard Kennedy School, Talks at Google, and partner institutions in three countries.
She writes Dear Humanity, a weekly Sunday letter, and is building Stories in Color: A Human Dignity Exhibition and the Kind Kulture Institute.
Alex Anderson
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Alex is the co-founder and Executive Director of Kind Kulture. A filmmaker and producer, he leads operations, communications and production. For eight years he led educator and leadership dialogues with the Museum of Tolerance’s Tools for Tolerance program across California.
Leadership & governance
Carried by more than its founders.
Kind Kulture is guided by a board and advisors who are survivors, scholars and leaders in their fields.
Board of Directors
Consolee Nishimwe
Board Member
Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi and author of Tested to the Limit. An internationally recognized speaker who has addressed the United Nations General Assembly.
Sherry Horowitz
Board Member
Founder and President of Horowitz-Harnick Communications, a public relations strategist with more than 25 years of experience.
Lynn Stuart
Board Member
A steward of the institution’s founding and long-term governance.
Gary Palmer
Board Member
Belfast-born artist whose large-scale public artworks have been shown at festivals across Europe, Australia and the United States. He leads board development for Kind Kulture.
Dydine & Alex Anderson
Founders · Officers
Dydine serves as President and CEO. Alex serves as Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Director.
Advisory Board
Isabella Harnick
Advisor
Operations Manager at NYU Langone Health and Cornell-trained in healthcare administration.
Serena Newsom, MHA
Advisor
A steward of the institution’s mission and growth.
Alexa Natale
Advisor
A steward of the institution’s mission and growth.
Team
Keilee Bentley
Volunteer Team Lead
Coordinates Kind Kulture’s volunteer team and supports grants and the work of building the institution.
Build with us
Stand with us at the founding.
Founding Partners join us before the building exists.
Kind Kulture is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 85-0780571. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.