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.

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Dydine embracing a Holocaust survivor and early mentor
Dydine speaking to an audience
University students holding Dydine's book after a talk
A law enforcement leadership cohort with Dydine after a dialogue session
100,000+
students reached since 2014
3
countries: the United States, Rwanda and Colombia
8 years
of law enforcement and community dialogue
Spring 2027
our founding exhibition opens in Los Angeles

Healing begins with being heard. Kindness carries it home.

Kind Kulture is a Los Angeles nonprofit dedicated to storytelling as a way of healing, so that kindness, love, hope and empathy prevail.

Dehumanization is learned, and it can be unlearned, one room at a time. Our first stories came from Rwanda. Today they come from every place that has known the same pain.

Who we are →
Dydine speaking to a full room at The Shine Movement in Los Angeles
The Shine Movement, Los Angeles
Black and white portrait of Dydine Umunyana Anderson
Photograph by Dan McMahon
“One’s own life experiences are not theirs to keep, but ours to teach.”
Dydine Umunyana Anderson
Founder & President
Read her story →
Students listening closely during a Kind Kulture storytelling session.
Students listening during a Kind Kulture session

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.

Read

Dear Humanity arrives every Sunday: a letter from Dydine on survival, healing and what it means to be human.

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A gift of any size, once or monthly, helps build the institution. No gift is too small to be part of this founding.

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Book Dydine

Bring Dydine to your school, university, company or conference to speak on survival, memory and what it takes to rebuild.

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On the horizon

December 1, 2026 · Los Angeles
Butterfly Night
A night of hope on Giving Tuesday: stories, art and empathy, with paintings by Gary Palmer. Our first fundraiser. RSVP open.
Spring 2027 · Los Angeles
The Founding
Stories in Color: A Human Dignity Exhibition opens. Opening night is the founding launch of Kind Kulture.
2028 onward · On tour
The traveling years
Each year the exhibition opens in a new city, until it comes home to the Kind Kulture Institute.
All events and impact →

This is the founding

Stand with us.

The survivors who carry these stories are aging, and testimony not gathered now is lost. An institution is built by the people who choose to believe in it first.

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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.