SevenDays invites area high schoolers to apply to its Kindness Youth Leadership (KYLT) team for the 2025-2026 school year.
Now in its second decade, SevenDays is a Kansas-City based nonprofit organization that promotes kindness and understanding through education and dialogue.
KYLT is made up of high school students (ninth-through-12th grades) from a variety of schools across the Kansas City metro, faiths, cultures and ethnicities.
Students in the KYLT meet monthly to participate in leadership training and perform acts of community service. KYLT members are “kindness influencers” who also help plan SevenDays’ annual Kindness Kickoff event and Kindness Walk and work to increase participation in SevenDays activities by students at their schools.
Members are selected through this application process; the application is now available through the SevenDays website (sevendays.org). The application deadline is June 1.
KYLT members have also helped develop kindness resources available from SevenDays including “Carry On Kindness” cards. All resources are free, available for all, and encouraged.
"Being a part of the Kindness Youth Leadership Team has allowed me to make new and diverse connections while making real-time impact on my community,” said graduating high school senior Sai Gudla of her two years on the team.
“Being part of SevenDays has been life-changing for me,” said high school junior Abhi Kambhampati, another KYLT member. “Being able to bring SevenDays activities to my school and see the ‘ripple' is amazing because the messages students take out of the activities impact throughout the year.”
SevenDays 2026 will begin on Monday, April 13, 2026, and continue through Tuesday, April 21, 2026. The SevenDays Kindness Breakfast will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
More information about the Kindness Youth Leadership Team or other youth activities is available by emailing Jill Andersen, SevenDays’ youth engagement director, at , or by visiting sevendays.org.