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Reframing Our Impact on Humanity
“Through compelling personal stories and profound, timeless principles,
Kyle encourages us to live up to our humanity by knowing ourselves,
enhancing our relationship with others, demonstrating layers of empathy,
and creating positive communities. By seeing and acting with
humanity through these four lenses, we can be safe, become, belong,
and believe. These human yearnings apply to family, work, neighborhood,
education, and church settings. The right book for our time.”
—DAVE ULRICH, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan; partner, The RBL Group; best-selling author
A Message from the Author
Thank you for visiting my website and for your interest in living a more humanity-driven life.
Lenses of Humanity was born from my desire to be a bridge builder and a conduit of human understanding.
I believe that with a bit more intentionality on humanizing the experiences of others, we can and will develop greater lenses of understanding, compassion, and empathy.
I invite you to engage with me, not just through the reading of or listening to the book, but rather in an ongoing dialogue about how we can all get better at lifting humanity.
- Do you feel the heaviness of our societal and political divides?
- Are you finding it difficult to positively engage with people who view the world differently than you do?
- Have you seen evidence of the erosion of humanity?
The important work of human and cultural understanding has been nested in thorny political agendas that often don’t invite healthy exchange. Rather than feed into the political divide, Dr. Kyle Reyes presents an approach to understanding differences that prioritizes humanity.
The framework and structure of this book are born from the belief in lens development—the deliberate effort to see things anew—because when we see things anew, a change in our behavior follows. Humanity requires work unique to the individual and the collective, and Dr. Reyes introduces a new framework that invites us to improve how we show up in the world and engage with others.
Personal growth and transformation come from honest reflection and self- analysis. In Lenses of Humanity, Dr. Reyes illustrates how we can improve and develop more human understanding, embrace more humane practices, and find deeper connections across differences so we can be more deliberate in living our lives with greater humanity.
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Dr. Kyle A. Reyes currently serves as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Utah Valley University (UVU)—the largest university in the state of Utah with over 45,000 students. Before this appointment in October 2022, Dr. Reyes served for five years as VP of Student Affairs and from 2014-2017, Kyle served as UVU’s Senior Diversity & Inclusion Officer. In that role, he led the development and implementation of UVU’s nationally-recognized Strategic Inclusion Plan consisting of nearly 40 initiatives focused on making UVU a more inclusive campus. He has been at UVU for 20 years in various offices and programs: TRIO Upward Bound, GEAR UP, Multicultural Student Services, Student Success & Retention, the School of Education, and the Office of the President.
Dr. Reyes is also a tenured Associate Professor of Education at UVU and taught courses in Multicultural Education, Family & Community Partnerships, and Arts-based Integration. His research focuses on arts-based student empowerment; leadership for equity and access; and institution-wide inclusion and diversity strategic planning.
Kyle has consulted with, and presented to, organizations in 32 states and Canada in various sectors including: K-12 education, higher education, business, community task forces, and faith groups. He has given more than 600 presentations over the past 17 years on issues of diversity, inclusion, art, cultural competence, voice, identity, multiculturalism, and leadership.
In addition to serving on the board of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, Kyle served on the Utah Governor’s Multicultural Commission. He is the past president of the Utah chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Dr. Reyes has also served as the co-chair of the College Access Network for the Utah System of Higher Education and a member of the board of directors for the United Way of Utah County and American Indian Services.
Dr. Reyes has received a number of awards including:
Exemplary Educator for Diversity Award from the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME)
UVU’s Board of Trustees Award
Inclusion Cultivates Excellence Award from CUPA-HR
Utah Valley Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40
Top 50 Diversity Executives in the Nation from Diversity MBA Magazine
Kyle received his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Utah and was the recipient of the Bennion Morgan Fellowship.
In his free time, Kyle likes to design shoes and spend time with his partner, Michele, and their children. They deliberately try to build their cultural heritage (Michele – Navajo & Kyle – Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese) into their family learning and engagement.
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