Love Odih Kumuyi

Researcher

Love Odih Kumuyi is a peacebuilding and conflict transformation practitioner.  She is the Founder and Director of Unsiloed, a consulting firm that uses research-driven approaches to build more just, connected and inclusive communities. Prior, she was the inaugural Associate Dean of Conflict Resolution at Cornell University. At the over 20,000 student campus, Love developed educational and programmatic interventions that uses mediation and restorative justice mechanisms to respond to conflict, crisis, and identity-based concerns; this included reforming the policy on bias and redesigning data monitoring processes to inform strategic planning.

A trained lawyer and practicing mediator and educator, Love has worked locally and internationally, trained hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers, and worked on peacebuilding, human rights issues, youth, and gender inclusion projects at the United Nations Development Program in Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Love holds degrees in History and Criminology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica; Degrees in Law from the University of London and Norman Manley Law School.

In 2017, Love completed a Masters in Global Affairs at New York University Center for Global Affairs. Her capstone project focused on using simulations and experiential learning to reengineer how everyday actors, particularly youth, can promote, participate in, and implement intersectional and intergenerational change. First piloted in New York, the project has since been rolled out for participants in Iraq through the NYU Peace Research and Education Program.