Musical Ambassadors of Peace is a 501c(3) organization dedicated to healing those traumatized by war through the power of music worldwide. M. A. P. was founded in 2003 by Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia, two musicians with a passion for Middle Eastern music who visited Baghdad soon after the U.S. invasion to rebuild cross-cultural bridges broken by war and political upheaval. Their findings were simple: when people make music together, they heal together and are more able to see the world from a musician’s perspective without political overtones.
Each year the organization has expanded its scope by providing cross-cultural education to all musicians in search of spreading peace and healing around the world. These ambassadors have orchestrated healing musical sessions for Afghan, Ukrainian and female Iraqi refugees in Southern California, asylum seekers in Northern Mexico, freed Yazidi women of Northern Iraq, for newly freed Congolese child soldiers in Uganda and girls in Gaza.