Season 1: Episode 5 - Systems and Communities: The Bigger Picture of Restorative Justice
This season we have discussed what restorative justice looks like at the micro level in our personal lives, in camps, in schools, and how it is connected to the racial justice movement. We believe in seeing conflict as an opportunity for innovation and connection, and that it can create more confident kids and more connected communities.
Join us for our season finale, as we sit down with Shira May, Isobel Davies, and Majorie Isaacs to talk about the power restorative justice can have at a societal level, and how we can change the systems and communities we are all a part of.
Show Notes:
Shira May - is the executive director of PIRI. Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel and raised in Los Angeles, Shira studied Cognitive Science at the University of California at Berkeley and then earned her Ph.D. from the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester. When her son was young, Shira joined a monthly parenting group that used the Circle process, and her passion for restorative practices was ignited. As a facilitator, she incorporates practices of mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, trauma-responsiveness, and social justice in her work with families, workplace groups, and communities.
Isobel Davies - completed graduate studies in Conflict, Governance and Development at the University of York, benefitting from the experience of professors from the Post-War Reconstruction Unit. Concurrently, she became a certified mediator. She currently serves as co-chair of the Development Committee for the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and sits on the advisory board for PIRI.
Majorie Isaacs - is a passionate social worker and dynamic advocate, utilizing an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens to support the people she works with. She currently works at Common Justice, an organization based in NYC that develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and fosters racial equity without relying on incarceration.
other resources:
The work of Ken Hardy https://www.amazon.com/Books-Kenneth-Hardy/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKenneth+Hardy
The work of Dominic Barter https://restorativejusticeontherise.org/dominic-barter-of-restorative-circles/
