Community Meeting with Kevin Kelly
14 April, 2021
For this community meeting, the quest speaker was Kevin Kelly. Kevin Kelly is the executive director of the Dayton International Peace Museum, a nonprofit museum. The Dayton International Peace Museum works to focus on issues of unrest and war and promote peace especially with issues like WWII but also police brutality around the nation and the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. This event relates to IA because the museum itself promotes awareness of what is going on around the world and trying to fix issues of inequality and injustice to promote peace and safety for all. IA works to promote awareness and fight for world issues of inequality and the International Peace Museum also works to do those same things and is working to adapt to the political atmosphere that America and the world is in right now. I learned about how nonprofits can be impactful in world issues especially through the programs that Kevin Kelly discussed that the Peace Museum had and is working on like the red line discrimination in the 1930’s through the 1960’s. This event did not necessarily relate to my current career interests, but it opened my eyes to what other options are available in my future that would still involve being active and educated on world issues. The part of the event that connected to my course work this semester was the question about his opinion on pulling troops out of Afghanistan as this is something that we discussed in my Terror and Terrorism class. After this event, I am interested in going to the International Peace Museum in Dayton when they open up in order to support this nonprofit and learn more from their different exhibits.