Ivan Kilgore - Founder - United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

Founder

Ivan Kilgore | Author, Founder UBFSF

Ivan Kilgore is an incarcerated author, activist and founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation and Zo Media Productions, LLC. He has been incarcerated in California for over two decades serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Shortly after entering prison, he discovered an ability to write that became a doorway for him to eventually begin teaching numerous writing workshops in prison.

He has published four books – Domestic Genocide: the Institutionalization of Society, My Comrades’ Thoughts on Black Lives Matter: A Collection of Essays & Poetry, Mayhem, Murder & Magnificence: A Memoir, and King: the Early Years.

Ivan’s books and other writings are required reading in universities throughout the United States. Notably, his work “the Zo” was adapted to film by the Marshall Project and winner of the 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence and Innovation and recipient of an Emmy nod in the area of News & Documentary.

He lectures for universities in California, New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Florida, Montreal, and Louisiana, and teaches several pioneering internship programs for student volunteers.

A Message from Ivan | Make Your Own Opportunities

Are you seeking work-life balance and meaning? How about an opportunity to utilize your abilities to bring about significant change?

Or is it that you need to discover your potential or develop professional skills? If your answer is Yes! Yes! Yes!… the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation has just the volunteer opportunity for you to accomplish all of this and much more.

Our volunteer opportunities offer progressively interesting and meaningful work that will allow you to see how your abilities can be channeled to bring about positive transformations within your community and other people’s lives.

Even more, our volunteer opportunities are perfect for teenagers and young adults seeking to gain experience working in various capacities. We are open to experimentation and celebration of people who take initiative.

Not to mention we encourage and integrate the ambitions of many self-starters.

If you are someone who believes happiness doesn’t lie chiefly in financial success but in meaningful work, good relationships, time for reflection, and cultivation of gratitude – this is an organization with whom you will become a lifelong member. Apply today.

Literature

Ivan has published four books, and his writings have been adapted for Emmy nominated films, taught in universities around the world, and used by countless advocacy organizations throughout the United States.