Dr. Fania Davis will return to Columbia University Dec 3rd to speak at The Justice Forum as well meet with educators from across New York City to discuss the impact and implementation of restorative justice in schools. Dr. Davis is a long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice scholar and professor, and a civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge. She is the Founding Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) and has taught Restorative Justice at San Francisco ‘s New College Law School and Indigenous Peacemaking at Eastern Mennonite University‘s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.
She will be speaking at The Justice Forum – Paradigms for Justice: Beyond Punishment with several other leading thinkers including Danielle Sered, Dr. James Gilligan, John Valverde and Dr. Michelle Fine to critically examine the utility of punishment in our society and discuss alternative approaches to justice, accountability and safety.