01/11/2026
Tickets are now open for our January event speaker, Kevin Blackburn!
‼️ Jan CM event: Friday, Jan 30, Doors 8:30 AM
🎟️ Tickets: Reserve your free ticket https://creativemornings.com/talks/kevin-blackburn
🖼️ Where: Station No. 2 (602 S 5th Ave) .2
🖊️ Get to know Kevin Blackburn!
Kevin is the Executive Director of Kids Making It (KMI), a nationally recognized nonprofit woodworking after-school program located on Castle Street in Wilmington.
Through the framework of trauma-informed youth development, KMI helps transforms lives by offering skills, support, sawdust, and opportunity. KMI serves kids facing major barriers to success, helping them stay in school, stay out of trouble, and transition to lifelong success.
Under Kevin's leadership, KMI maintains a 98% success rate in keeping participants out of the juvenile justice system. He was also recently appointed as a member of the NC Gang Prevention & Intervention Task Force.
Speaking on January’s theme of “hope,” Kevin will talk about how the KMI program showcases how one caring adult can change a kid's life forever.
** Breaking news: The truck was stolen off Castle Street on Jan 8. It's been spotted in the area, but has not been recovered as yet. Sending all the best wishes out to the KMI team that it's returned ASAP!
