Los Angeles · A Cultural Institution Being Built in Public
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 Los Angeles home for survivor testimony, art, and healing. Our founding exhibition, Stories in Color: A Human Dignity Exhibition, opens Spring 2027.
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 ColorIllustration by Guiliane Cerón, from Embrace Life. Stories in Color, the survivor-led traveling exhibition, opens in Spring 2027 with original survivor portraits.
Who We Are
Kind Kulture is a Los Angeles nonprofit dedicated to storytelling as a way of healing, so that kindness, love, hope, and empathy prevail. We are building the Kind Kulture Institute in front of witnesses: a permanent home for survivor testimony, art, and human dignity.
Rwanda is the founding heart. Humanity is the destination.
Right Now
Three ways to be part of this today.
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Read
Dear Humanity arrives every Sunday, a letter from Dydine on survival, healing, and what it means to be human. Free to read.
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Give
A gift of any size helps build the institution, given once, or monthly. There is no gift too small to be part of this founding.
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Book Dydine
Bring Dydine to your university, company, or conference to speak on survival, memory, and what it takes to rebuild.
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“One’s own life experiences are not theirs to keep, but ours to teach.”
Dydine Umunyana Anderson Founder & President
Photograph by Dan McMahon
Begin Where You Are
Four ways into the work.
About
The founders, the board, and the institutional case for what we are building.
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The Institute
The Kind Kulture Institute: a permanent home for survivor testimony and human dignity in Los Angeles.
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Programs
Four survivor-led programs for schools, universities, companies, and law enforcement.
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Books
Embrace Life and Abrazar La Vida: the founding memoir, in two languages.
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Dear Humanity
A letter, every Sunday.
Letters on survival, healing, and what it means to be human, written by Dydine, published every Sunday on Substack.
A new letter arrives every Sunday. Read the latest, and subscribe to receive each one.
On the Horizon
What is being built next.
This Is the Founding
Stand with us.
The survivors who carry these stories are aging, and testimony not gathered now is lost. Founding Partners join us before the building exists. Their belief is what makes the institution real.
Kind Kulture is the public name of Umuco Love, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 85‑0780571. All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.