Happy Grown Ups Trickle Down: Beloved Communities and Restorative Practice
Monday, October 17, 2016
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Putah Creek Lodge, UC Davis
In this talk, sujatha baliga will discuss her past decade of work to
interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline through restorative justice,
with a focus on how adults in schools settings can personally and
interpersonally benefit from restorative principles and practices, and
how positive adult relationships and approaches to conflict
transformation can spread to the children they serve.
Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center is a
university-community collaborative serving practitioners and researchers
committed to disrupting racial inequities in education by creating
restorative, humanizing, justice-seeking teaching and learning
communities.
About the Speaker
sujatha baliga’s work is characterized by an equal dedication to
victims and persons accused of crimes. She speaks publicly and inside
prisons about her own experiences as a survivor of child sexual abuse
and her path to forgiveness. A former victim advocate and public
defender in New York and New Mexico, baliga was awarded a Soros Justice
Fellowship in 2008 which she used to launch a pre-charge restorative
juvenile diversion program in Alameda County. Through the Restorative
Justice Project baliga helps communities implement restorative justice
alternatives to juvenile detention and zero-tolerance school discipline
policies. She is also dedicated to using this approach to end child
sexual abuse and intimate partner violence. sujatha is a frequent guest
lecturer at universities and conferences; she’s been a guest on NPR and
the Today Show; and The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic have
profiled her work. She earned her A.B. from Harvard College, her J.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania, and has held two federal
clerkships.
