K Jaiman

United States Director of Dialogue & Training

Contact Jaiman

kjaiman@seedsofpeace.org

Jaiman believes that in order to transform oppressive systems, we must be willing to confront and shape the most neglected parts of ourselves and one another with deep love and intention. He learned this through teaching leadership, facilitating candid dialogues, and creating music with people from different parts of the world.

Jaiman’s students from rural and urban India and the boroughs of New York City worked together to cultivate their own individual capacity for leadership, observe systemic inequality in their own communities, and collectively design advocacy campaigns for improving school conditions. Jaiman also organized for policing justice in New York, helping draft legislation for civilian-led police accountability.

He returned to his hometown Boston to attend Harvard Graduate School of Education as an Equity & Inclusion Fellow and Educational Leadership candidate. There, he turned the lens onto himself, learning that leadership starts with the practice of challenging one’s own assumptions, loyalties, and traumas within small and large-scale groups. He put this into practice at KONU, where he facilitated Adaptive Leadership workshops with a variety of international governments and US educational institutions and public service systems. Through his journey in education and organizing, Jaiman saw firsthand the transformative power of dialogues in depersonalizing conflict and moving together into a future that breaks free from violent cycles of history.

At Seeds of Peace, Jaiman aims to bridge transformative dialogue work with youth and educators driven to change their systems and communities. Alongside his work, Jaiman lives into the world from many walks of life—fantasizing about the zaniest scientific theories, composing musical numbers on his synth, walking through the woods with loved ones, and taking part with local community work.

“Things are not getting worse; the world is revealing itself for how it is. To move forward through these trying times and transform the world, we must meet in a field. Within this field, when we work and cry and love together, new possibilities emerge. ‘Out beyond the realms of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field—I’ll meet you there.’”