Throughout this year, we will be highlighting individuals or groups that have impacted our work over the last 50 years.

Kibi Anderson

Former POV Staff member and Current Advisory Board member

I met the former Director of the Prevention team at POV, Leah Aldridge, via a connection from her mother. I was an independent film producer and POV was launching their digital storytelling curriculum and they were looking for a consultant to help train the students on storytelling and I was a good fit. I worked on that program and produced the first ever POV Sorting it Out Youth Film Festival in partnership with USC, as a culmination of that program. Patti Giggans was impressed with my work and asked me...what else can you do? And the rest is history. I came on board as the head of Communications and Community Outreach and produced one of the first large in-person Denim Day in LA events with students downtown. I also oversaw the rebranding and launch of the name change from the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women to Peace Over Violence and produced the annual fundraising dinner where the new brand was rolled out. I'm now back living in Los Angeles and the CEO & Co-Founder of a tech enabled start-up called Wordsmyth where companies can discover, source and hire Black + Diverse freelance writers for marketing & communications needs, and an executive coach through my boutique coaching firm called Life Editor.

"My work for POV was transformational. It taught me that no matter how overwhelming or unsolvable a problem like ending domestic violence may seem, don't ever lose sight of the powerful impact you can have at the individual level. A simple phone call, word of encouragement, fist in the air, and $20 donation can change an individual survivor's life, and that's the point of it all."