Colleagues, Collaborators, & Co-conspirators
Here are a few of my nearest-and-dearest in this work, with links to get in touch with them.
Amore Alvarenga
Amore (They/Them/Theirs) creates invitations for people to embody their remedios. Amore facilitates accountability dialogues and curates healing spaces centered on ancestral practices, nervous system engagement, and healthy relationship skills. They are a Healing Justice Practitioner and Curandere based on Ohlone lands. They can be reached here.
Conly Basham
Conly (they/she) is a Neuroqueer multidisciplinary performing and healing practitioner centering collective liberation. They have been a space holder in community for over 30 years working with infants to centenarians. In RJ and circle tending Conly weaves somatic, expressive arts, spirituality, ancestral-ecological lineage, Neurodivergent paradigm, decolonizing and liberatory frameworks. Find them online here.
David Belden
Dave is an activist, restorative justice practitioner, and scholar. He has joined struggles for feminism, global justice, and workplace democracy; authored novels of politicized science fiction; driven change as an organizer in the Network of Spiritual Progressives and as editor of Tikkun Magazine; and invested himself in an RJ movement striving to heal the root causes of violence and harm. You can contact him here.
Parker Chamberlin
Parker is an abolitionist therapist and restorative justice facilitator living in the Central Valley of CA, the land of the Yokuts. He is a formerly incarcerated person and works primarily with individuals and families who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. You can reach Parker here.
Alison Espinosa-Setchko
Alison is a queer, biracial (Mexican-American and white) therapist and restorative justice facilitator based in Oakland, CA. Grounded in abolitionist values and shaped by her family’s experiences with the criminal legal system, she brings years of experience supporting adult survivors of sexual violence and system-impacted communities through restorative, non-punitive approaches to healing and accountability. You can reach her here.
Simone Harris
Simone’s work bridges ancestral healing and modern emotional recovery. She draws from the Earth-centered healing traditions of her Yoruba ancestors of Benin and Nigeria — a lineage of storytellers, dreamers, and community healers who guided people towards individual & collective care as they move through life transitions. She can be reached here.
Kristine Hill
Kristine Marie Hill is a member of the Beaver Clan, Tuscarora nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She has been practicing indigenous peacekeeping for over 25 years, serving the next generation’s re-acquisition of their language, traditions, and ceremonies. She is the proud mother of 4 children and 2 grandchildren, several of whom are speaking the Tuscarora language her grandmother was forced to forget in the Carlisle boarding school. Find out more about her here.
Ana Maria Hurtado
Ana is a bilingual (Spanish & English) therapist and restorative justice facilitator from Colombia. She supports individual harm cases and guides restorative justice processes within the framework of Colombia’s peace agreement. You can reach her here.
Anushah Jiwani
Anushah is a facilitator, consultant, and writer based in Albuquerque, NM. Her current work advances restorative justice for survivors of sexual violence. She offers workshops and support for groups that want to transform the way they respond to harm. You can reach her here.
Kony Kim
Kony is a curious human who writes, facilitates restorative processes, and offers individual accompaniment. She enjoys walking alongside people as they navigate identity shifts, relationship ruptures, meaning-making, and neurodivergent experiences. She can be reached here.
Kenton Kirby
Kenton Kirby, LCSW, is a licensed social worker with over 20 years of experience in frontline practice, nonprofit leadership, and systems change. He is the founder of CVK Consulting LLC and brings deep expertise in restorative justice, trauma-informed care, violence prevention, and community-based mental health and housing services, working with organizations to build more equitable, healing-centered responses to harm. You can reach him here.
Jaime Leyva
Jaime is the Circles of Support & Accountability program director at Community Justice Center in Fresno, CA, as well as a Substance Use Disorder counselor and mediator, and Victim Offender Dialogue facilitator. He has also mentored at-risk youth, and has facilitated a range of groups on topics like cognitive behavioral therapy /intervention, anger & denial management, and substance abuse.
Martina Lutz-Schneider
Martina is a Community Justice Center program manager and longtime RJ practitioner and Victim Offender Dialogue facilitator. CJC collaborates with California prison rehabilitation groups to provide healing pathways for survivors of interpersonal violence through surrogate dialogue processes.
Jonathan McRay
Jonathan is a farmer, facilitator, and writer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He is a cofounder of Silver Run Forest Farm, an agroforestry nursery propagating beautiful and useful tree crops and plant allies that cross-pollinate food sovereignty and ecological restoration. He also teaches on cultural ecology, radical social movements, antiracism, and agroecology, and supports grassroots groups through conflict transformation and participatory decision-making.
Kristen Parker
Kristen is an online RJ facilitator, therapeutic coach, and consultant in the areas of research, evaluation, and mental health in RJ. She has extensive experience with intimate partner and sexual harm. You can reach her here.
Nicole Pittman
Nicole is an RJ practitioner and survivor of child sexual abuse who moves with a deep belief in truth, repair, and the humanity of everyone touched by harm. She specializes in CSA cases, accompanying everyone involved through careful, trauma-informed processes. Nicole also serves as E.D. of Just Beginnings Collaborative. Her advocacy centers those who’ve caused harm, guided by the conviction that what is not transformed gets transferred.
Erika Sasson
Erika is an attorney and RJ practitioner focused on creating opportunities for difficult conversations, while reimagining how we relate to each other in the aftermath of harm. Her work is focused on areas of complex harm, such as intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and homicide. She consults with organizations in New York City and around the country that want to create RJ programming, or to navigate complex dynamics in the workplace. Learn more here.
daniel jacob self
daniel is a Somatic Therapist, Coach, and Restorative Justice Facilitator based in Manhattan working online with clients worldwide. He works with individuals, families, groups, and romantic relationships on accountability and more skillful communication through deepening our embodied connection with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. You can reach him here.
Maegan Willan
Maegan is a licensed marriage and family therapist and restorative justice facilitator working in the East Bay. She is specialized in utilizing EMDR and Internal Family Systems and providing support to queer and trans people, to activists and people in movement spaces, and to people navigating sexual trauma. You can reach out to her through her Psychology Today profile.
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