To Hear & Be Heard: What Restorative and Transformative Justice Have to Offer Us
Feb 25, 2021
4:30-6PM ET On Zoom
with Jasmyn Story and Honeycomb Justice
An interactive virtual learning experience focused on student perspectives and open to all.
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This interactive keynote for the February 25th Community Day of Education will discuss how we can shift our punitive culture towards a culture of healing-centered accountability. We will look at the limitations imposed on us through urgency culture, and what tools restorative justice and transformative justice offer our communities. We will discuss how learning to hear the emotions, needs, and boundaries of other members of our community, while expressing our own, is a crucial first step to shifting our culture towards healing-centered accountability.
Honeycomb Justice is a group of restorative and transformative justice facilitators, educators, and D&I specialists dedicated to collective healing and communal building. We share a collective vision of an equitable, just society rooted in anti-racist practices and methodologies. Just like the honeybee, we believe in communal building.
Jasmyn Elise Story (they/them) is an international Restorative Justice Facilitator, Doula, and the founder of The People’s Coalition and Freedom Farm Azul. Named one of Vice’s 31 Women Making History by Creating a Better Future, they are a dedicated human rights activist with a decade of experience working in the voluntary sector. As the former Deputy Director of Social Justice & Racial Equity for the Office of the Mayor of Birmingham, Jasmyn co-led the launch of the State of Alabama’s first government sustained Women’s Initiative. After completion of their M.A. in Human Rights at the University College London, they are currently completing their Ph.D. as a third-generation Tuskegee University student.
This keynote is part of the 2021 Common Good Practitioner-Scholar Residency, organized by Ethics and the Common Good Project (ECG) in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (IDI), the Community Commons (CoCo), the Lebron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center, Residential Life, the Center for Spiritual Life, the Wellness Center and the In/Justice Learning Collaborative
Spring 2021 Common Good Practitioner-Scholar Residency
Restorative & Transformative Justice with Jasmyn Story and Honeycomb Justice
“Independence is inseparable from interdependence, and individuality expands from being solitary to being in solidarity”
– Fania Davis
This year’s Common Good Practitioner-Scholar Residency, presented by the Ethics and the Common Good Project and cross-campus collaborators, aims to deepen our shared understanding of Restorative Justice and Transformative Justice by strengthening our capacity to engage in restorative approaches to community building and address harm and injustice.
How do we build relationships, institutions, and communities that are connected by resilience, communication, and accountability? How can we transform experiences and histories of conflict and harm through collective healing and collective change? Together, we aim to build skills to forge sustainable culture shift through dialogue and action at Hampshire College and beyond.
The residency will begin with virtual events open to all as part of Spring 2021 Community Days of Education.
Thursday, February 25th from 4:30-6pm
An interactive virtual learning experience focused on student perspectives and open to all.
To Hear & Be Heard: What Restorative and Transformative Justice Have to Offer Us
Tuesday, March 16th from 10:30am-12:00pm
An interactive learning experience focused on faculty and staff perspectives and open to all.
Save the date – more information available soon!