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Belinda Dulin began her employment with The Dispute Resolution Center 2003 as the Mediation Services Coordinator and assisted in launching the Small Claims Mediation Program and the Domestic Relations Motion Day Program. She has also been a director of mediation services and Executive Director at DRC. In 2013, also under Belinda’s leadership, the DRC partnered with the Peacemaking Court, providing a restorative justice model to families in the child protection and delinquency systems The Dispute Resolution Center serves Washtenaw and Livingston Counties. Prior to becoming involved in community mediation, she worked in the corporate setting assisting with employment disputes -- preserving the working relationships between co-workers and employees and management. Belinda can be reached at: [email protected].

In this episode, Belinda Dulin shares about her contributions to You will meet Belinda Dulin (2:04), hear about her experience with restorative justice (7:56), hear her successes and struggles in restorative education (23:13), the importance of spaces outside of school and courts (35:40), and cultural competence (53:42). She gives her closing ideas at (1:05:00).

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Barbara A. Sherrod is a restorative practices Program director, avid reader, writer and mother of two. Through story-telling circles and transformative coaching, Barbara educates school communities on the use of restorative practices for interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship building; addressing race and gender based-harms perpetuated in school communities. Her website, MillennialMochaMoms provides space for Black millennial mothers to share their maternal experiences and create community. Barbara is currently a doctoral student at Morgan State University studying Urban Educational Leadership.

In this episode, you will meet Barbara Sherrod (2:00), hear her perspective on current events in America (6:30), her experiences with restorative justice (15:11), and her inspirations in writing (30:00). She also shares her experiences with restorative practices in parenting (49:30), and how to implement these methods (54:00). She provides her closing thoughts at 1:04:00. 

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Michelle Armster is African American. She is also the executive director for the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States in North Newton, KS. She worked for MCC in the US Peace and Justice program in urban peacemaking as the director of Conciliation Services and co-director for the Office on Justice and Peacebuilding. She attended Lancaster Theological Seminary, where she received a master of divinity. Michelle is a trainer, teacher, and practitioner in the areas of conflict transformation, mediation, anti-racism/anti-oppression, offender-victim mediation (OVM), restorative justice/practices, and crimes of severe violence.

You will meet Michelle Armster (2:10) and her experience (7:47). She emphasizes the importance of refining the system (27:20), community (32:00), black abolition (43:20), listening (45:26), and unpacking bias (52:26). At the end she gives a powerful nod to women of color (1:00:25) and the history of the land she occupies (1:13:00).

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Dr. Desirée Anderson was born in San Diego, California. The child of naval personnel, she had the pleasure of moving around a lot including living in Belgium where she attended High School. Desiree returned to the U.S. to live in Louisville, Kentucky where she completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of Louisville. Having worked in higher education for over 13 years, Dr. Desirée Anderson has committed her energy to address issues of bias and hate on college and university campuses. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Orleans researching The Use of Campus-Based Restorative Justice Practices to Address Incidents of Bias: Facilitators’ Experiences. Before coming to serve as the Associate Dean of Diversity and Student Affairs at the University of New Orleans she worked as the Director of the Intercultural Center at Saint Mary’s College of California and previously held positions as the Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs at Tulane University and as an Area Residence Director at Texas State University. Desirée serves as an instructor in the Educational Administration Master's degree program at UNO and as a Restorative Justice National Team Trainer for the Center for Restorative Justice at the University of San Diego. Dr. Anderson has recently released a book chapter in Colorizing Restorative Justice by Living Justice Press.

In this podcast, you will meet Desirée Anderson (2:07), learn about her experience with restorative justice surrounding the school to prison pipeline (6:19), and much more. She discusses higher education (16:42) and her experience within institutions (21:15). In addition, she gives her take on how to address injustices in higher education (32:56) with her students (46:59). She shares how to get started in these practices at (58:00) and gives her closing thoughts (1:20:15).

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Amplify RJ community member, "Decolonize Your Classroom" workshop creator, & facilitator of childhood learning learning, Demointé Wesley shares their journey bringing abolitionist mindset and practices to the classroom and beyond!

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How does Restorative Justice apply to White Supremacy Culture? Find out in our conversation with Tema Okun. While she's not a "Restorative Justice practitioner" Tema's work around dismantling racism, through naming characteristics and antidotes to white supremacy culture has be deeply influential in the work we're doing with Amplify RJ. If you haven't read this article yet check it out!

New White Supremacy Culture website https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/
Check out all the resources at http://dismantingracism.org
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In addition to dropping viral truth bombs online through his instagram @restortingracialjustice, Jorge Santos is a restorative justice coordinator and a special education teacher in Brooklyn, NY. We cover so much in this conversation from his journey from working in criminal justice to stepping into the classroom, the need for doing this work the right way in schools, and if you stick around we get to talk about my true passion the NBA.

We’re also collaborating on an Intro to Racial & Restorative Justice workshop on Saturday, January 30, from 9-11am Pacific time and if you’re still curious about the basics of this work from a racial justice lens, we’d love to have you join us and bring a friend! Sign up for our joint Intro to RJ workshop at http://tiny.cc/ARJevents 

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Check out his “Teach for America” Article: https://www.teachforamerica.org/stories/we-must-transform-our-school-discipline-policies 

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After years of doing Youth Development work all throughout Chicago, Sandra Sosa is currently a member of the Social Justice and Well-being team with the W. Haywood Burns Institute. Born and raised in the Little Village Community of Chicago, IL, Sandra Sosa’s social justice philosophy and approach to community development weaves ancestral teachings and rites of passage work together with modern youth development practices.  Her personal journey began as a rites of passage recipient and mentor with Youth Struggling for Survival and since then she has grounded her work in ancestral teachings, which nurture each individual to take their own contributions into account and to develop themselves into changing behaviors unbecoming of a healthier and harmonious way of life. 

Sandra is the first generation middle daughter of her Mexican parents, is fluent in both Spanish and English, and recently began learning her native language of Nahuatl.  She graduated from Northern Illinois University with an award as Outstanding Woman. Sandra continues to use her experiences, knowledge, and skills to work with building the capacity of adults to strengthen positive relationships with children and youth.

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Our first episode of the 2021 is one of the most widely published authors in the field of restorative justice and peacemaking. Kay Pranis is a national leader in restorative justice, specializing in peacemaking Circles. She served as the Restorative Justice Planner for the Minnesota Department of Corrections from 1994 to 2003. Before that, she worked six years as the director of research services at the Citizen’s Council on Crime and Justice. She has written and presented papers on peacemaking Circles and restorative justice in the United States, Canada, Brazil and more. Since 1998, Kay has conducted Circle trainings in a diverse range of communities—from schools to prisons to workplaces to churches, from rural farm towns in Minnesota to Chicago’s South Side.

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Learn more & connect with Kay: @ http://www.livingjusticepress.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B5EA7355F-29D7-411D-A977-BF092BC6CC9C%7D 

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Last episode of the year and it's a great one! Annie Buth is bringing Restorative Justice practices into her work with the Center for Negotiation and Mediation at Northwestern Law School, but she’s has taken a long winding journey to get there! 

We'll be back January 6 with a very special episode and we'll be sharing even more amazing conversations in the new year.  Thank you so much for the support you've shown this podcast and all of Amplify RJ's work.

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“Changing Lenses” https://bookshop.org/a/12611/9780836199475
“Locked Down, Locked Out” https://bookshop.org/a/12611/9781626562691
“Prison By Any Other Name” https://www.mayaschenwar.com/prison-by-any-other-name

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