Executive Board
2024-2026
Kiran Singh Sirah (Independent) is an award-winning Storytelling Industry leader, Folklorist, Arts & Culture Strategist, Creative Thought Leader, and Past President of the International Storytelling Center. For more than two decades Kiran has established several award-winning arts, cultural and human rights initiatives in numerous countries. These programs have received recognition from UNESCO, The White House, The United Nations, and the European Commission. He has spoken at the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, The Pentagon, The US State Department and numerous world peace assemblies.
In 2015, he was invited to the White House in support of storytelling efforts for national grassroots peacebuilding efforts. An advisory member to UNESCO Scotland, a Rotary Peace Fellow, and Senior Fellow for the Alliance for Peacebuilding, he develops articles, talks and advises on interdisciplinary creative approaches to relationship building in communities around the globe. Kiran has been a thought leader on projects with the Smithsonian, League of American Orchestras, Google Arts & Culture, Dollywood, Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, American Folklore Society, Library of Congress, and has collaborated on special arts & peacebuilding projects by invitation of Yo-Yo Ma and Dolly Parton.
Kiran passionately believes in the power of human creativity, and the notion of a truly global multicultural society. In 2017, he was one seven people worldwide selected to receive the “Champion of Peace” award at Rotary International Day at the United Nations in Geneva and was recently nominated to receive a National Education Association Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights and Social Justice award. In addition, his passion includes mentoring marginalized youth and partnering with peace activists, artists, and poets and other underserved folks and supporting them to become the story of change they wish to see in the world. Learn more about Kiran at www.kiransinghsirah.net.
