On Everyday Restorative Justice (Livestream)

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Amidst today’s uncertainty and social unrest, the principles of restorative justice can provide a framework to move forward with empathy, trust, and accountability. Practiced in classrooms, community centers, and prisons, restorative justice focuses on learning models of repair and accountability that create conditions for trust and vulnerability.

As a cultural worker and restorative justice facilitator, Tatiana Chaterji uses personal narrative and embodied practice to deepen conversations across differences to cultivate humanizing relationships. She explores ways of applying cultural and ancestral technologies within systems that extract from us and violate our humanity and asks: what does it look like to invite softness amidst trauma, social neglect, and oppression?

Join Tatiana with activist and educator, Fania Davis for an empowering conversation exploring the principles and tools of restorative justice. Sharing insights from her latest book, Everyday Restorative Justice, and her work as one of the first restorative justice facilitators in the Oakland Unified School District, Tatiana discusses robust prevention and culture-building through students’ personal and conceptual exploration of pain, loss, oppression, and other emotionally charged topics.  

Whether you are a teacher, mentor, leader, or facilitator, this conversation will illuminate ways to incorporate lessons from restorative justice and explore exercises that foster tenderness, self-reflection, and skillful attention on how to “make it right.” 

Meet the Hosts

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Tatiana Chaterji, MFA served as one of the first RJ facilitators in Oakland Unified School District, bringing her background of prison programming and youth organizing into the classroom. As part of the Artistic Circle at California Shakespeare Theater, with support from California Arts in Corrections, Tatiana produced her curriculum A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song: Medicines of Healing in Theater Arts and Restorative Justice in 2021. Her new book with Teachers College Press, Everyday Restorative Justice: Moving from Crisis Response to Positive School Culture, attempts to bridge high-level harm response and K12 education.  

Tatiana treasures her time in the Drama Therapy program at CIIS, having returned to offer instruction on Theatre of the Oppressed. She proudly serves as Co-Director of Partners for Collaborative Change, a network of Popular Educators who support social movements through Participatory Action Research, liberation arts, and conflict transformation. As an artist, she learned theater in the streets of her community, specifically with the Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association and Kolkata collectives practicing Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre and Jerzy Grotowski’s Poor Theatre. She trains in martial arts and uses fight choreography to flip scripts of social dominance.
 

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Fania Davis is a leading international voice at the intersection of racial and restorative justice. Long-time activist, civil rights trial attorney, author, and educator with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge, Davis came of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era. These formative years, particularly the murder of close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing, crystallized within Fania an enduring commitment to social transformation.  Apprenticing with African indigenous healers catalyzed Fania’s search for a healing justice, ultimately leading her to become Founding Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Co-Founding Board Member of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice.  Her numerous honors include the Lifetime Achievement award for excellence in Restorative Justice. The Los Angeles Times named her a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century.

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