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.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
