About Our Speaker Kit cummings
In 2010 Kit founded the Power of Peace Project. Using the experience he gained resolving conflict in some of the most dangerous areas in the world, he applies his principles to bring about change in prisons, schools, juvenile courts, and the faith-based community. On MLK Day 2020, Kit was recognized by the NAACP receiving their Martin Luther King, Jr. Living the Dream Award for his contribution to civil rights and his work with underserved youth and prison reform. In 2021 he was appointed to the Georgia House of Representatives House Study Committee on Youth Gangs and Violence Prevention which led to the passing of the anti-gang bill HB750 under Chairman Rep. Carl Gilliard.
Kit has been in over a hundred prisons, jails, detention centers, and rehab facilities and worked with over ten thousand prisoners; as well as over one hundred schools, churches, and youth organizations and worked with over ten thousand teens. He has journeyed on tours through Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, and has negotiated peace between some of the most notorious gangs inside the U.S. prison industrial complex. In 2012 Kit delivered an address about his powerful peace projects at the Gandhi Global Peace Summit in Durban, South Africa to representatives from the Gandhi, King, and Mandela organizations, as well as other iconic peacemakers from around the world. Kit has taken his Forty Days to Freedom program into dangerous La Mesa prison in Tijuana, Mexico to teach prisoners nonviolence, as well as working with addicts and youth in some of the toughest areas of that cartel war-torn border city. Kit has planted seeds of peace all around the world.
Kit has authored six books, including the award-winning Peace Behind the Wire, a Nonviolent Resolution which has been endorsed by the King Family. His latest book, The New Convict Code, Bringing Peace to the Streets from Behind the Wire, flips the script on prison reform and aims to shatter the school-to-prison pipeline. Currently, Kit is partnered with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice to bring peace to the over one thousand kids incarcerated in Georgia detention centers and youth prisons.