Kids4Peace - A Retrospective

Kids4Peace empowers youth to create more peaceful communities. A global organization, Kids4Peace works with youth around the world to build interfaith community and engage youth in dialogue across diversity.

Since 2002, youth and their families have come together to do the hard work of building relationships and asking hard questions. At this almost-20 year mark, Kids4peace wanted to take a look back at the many faces and voices that make up their community, and celebrate their accomplishments.

I initially met Kids4Peace in my work to help combat the rampant discrimination against Muslims, disrimination that escalated over the Trump administraiton. We’ve created videos highlighting their programs for several years, and their work is outstanding. Check out one of our prior videos to see some of their work in action, or visit Kids4Peace’s website at k4p.org

Part of the challenge in creating this video were time and social distancing—we only had a couple of weeks to bring footage together from around the world, and without the ability to create any in-person footage due to covid19 social distancing guidelines. Using a mixture of archival photos, video, and some member-contributed phone footage, overall I think the peace captures the breadth, impact and joy felt by many in the Kids4Peace community.

Client: Kids4Peace
Roles: Strategist, Video Editor, Videographer (use of archival footage from previous events)