Six Billion Paths to Peace Ambassador

Kyleigh Khun

Kyleigh Khun graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies. As an undergrad she worked as a teaching assistant for Jerry Sanders a Professor at UC Berkeley in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department. She founded Pennies for Peace — Making Change Work, a student-to-student humanitarian program inspiring students to organize their schools’ student body to collect pennies and spare change for converting minefields into safe schools and playgrounds in war-torn countries. She also worked with Roots of Peace to transform a tent school housing 60 students to a five-room schoolhouse in the village of Mir Bocha Kot, Afghanistan which was later named the Kyleigh Khun Roots of Peace School by the Afghanistan Ministry of Education. Kyleigh is also a 6 Billion Paths to Peace Ambassador.