Kim Grose Moore
Executive Director, Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP)
2022, 2023
Kim Grose Moore has contributed for more than 20 years to making the San Francisco Bay Area a more just and equitable community. She is currently the Executive Director of the GRIP Training Institute, whose mission is to create the personal and systemic change to turn violence and suffering into opportunities for learning and healing. The Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP) program takes incarcerated people serving life sentences for violent crimes in California state prisons through an intensive year-long journey of trauma healing and accountability. Between 2012-2022, more than 1200 students graduated from the program, close to 700 were released from prison and the recidivism rate in those 10 years was less than 1%. GRIP graduates are now Peacemakers in their families and communities. Kim is a Buddhist chaplain, community organizer and mother of a high school age daughter in San Jose, CA.
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
