Zaid Gayle

Zaid Gayle is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Peace4Kids, a nonprofit in South Los Angeles that creates community as family for youth in foster care. In addition to his daily responsibilities, he also serves as the Vice Chair for the LA County Commission for Children and Families and Co-Chairs the Racial Justice Committee. His work in child welfare has positively influenced policy change, best practices and academic research while cultivating a new generation of advocates with lived experience in foster care. With over 20 years of exemplary service to the foster care community, Zaid is a highly sought-after trainer and public speaker both domestically and internationally.

Publications

Influencing Perceptions Through Storytelling: Reframing Interactions With Foster Care
Influencing Perceptions Through Storytelling: Reframing Interactions With Foster Care
Zaid Gayle, Mira Zimet. © 2023. 20 pages.
This chapter explores a holistic storytelling approach used to influence a community's perceptions on foster care. Over the past 25 years, Peace4Kids, a non-profit...
Transforming Public Education: Building New Systems by Activating the Ideas of the Oppressed
Transforming Public Education: Building New Systems by Activating the Ideas of the Oppressed
Jina Kim, Zaid Gayle. © 2023. 25 pages.
This chapter explores how public-school policy and practice that does not consider the interest of its diverse student body can have a detrimental effect on marginalized students...
Mitigating the Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Peace4Kids Approach in the Post-Pandemic Era
Mitigating the Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Peace4Kids Approach in the Post-Pandemic Era
Leslie Ponciano, Zaid Gayle, Jade Ponciano. © 2022. 22 pages.
Peace4Kids, a community-based non-profit, developed their trauma-informed, strengths-based approach over two decades of applied practice with children in foster care. This...