Experiences of inequity and abuse within families, communities, and institutions led her to pursue her Masters in Divinity at Claremont School of Theology, focusing her work on faith-rooted organizing and nonprofit management. From 2008-2013, she founded an international youth organizing collective, collaborating with other young adults to organize over 500 youth across the USA, India, and Mexico on transnational dialogues and action in their local communities. Samantha Lynne Wilson (MA, M.Div, PhD ABD) is a community psychologist, spiritual care provider, and restorative practices consultant and facilitator in Los Angeles, CA. She cares deeply for all those who have experienced, done, and been affected by harm. This motivates her to create opportunities that her parents didn’t have-for communities to work together to acknowledge harm, seek accountability without shaming, and to support those impacted and each other. nuri’s parents were both child sexual abuse survivors, amongst many other identities, including fiercely loving and often hilarious parents. She believes the collective has more wisdom than she could ever hold alone and values collaboration as a fundamental part of restorative justice work.
She’s had the privilege of training incredible people in circle process and restorative community conferencing models and has co-facilitated direct dialogues about harm, accountability, and support. She has 6 years of experience in restorative justice and over 15 years supporting those impacted by the criminal legal system. Nuri nusrat hopes to bring love and compassion to those she has the honor of working with. She currently facilitates training for healing within our homes, workplaces, communities, institutions, and the planet.īonnie Wills is a facilitator in the Restorative Approaches to Intimate Violence program in prison and facilitates Restorative Circles for families and organizations.
Through her work, she strives to support the eradication of social injustice and inspire. Bonnie is committed to a compassionate, just, and inclusive planet. She currently facilitates training for the re-entry pod at San Francisco Jail, Valley State Prison. She completed the Merritt College Community Mental Health Advocates certification training. She has facilitated healing/training circles at California Institute of Integral Studies, Cal State East Bay and Holy Names University. She has facilitated Restorative Justice Circles at San Quentin Prison, and COSA (Circles of Support and Accountability) groups for formerly incarcerated youth. She is a Certified Diversity Facilitator, and a Restorative Justice Facilitator and Trainer. Kennedy University, a Masters in Culture and Spirituality at Holy Names University, and a Masters in Religion and Philosophy at California Institute of Integral Studies. Some of my greatest joys include spending time with friends and family, swimming in all bodies of water, and bearing witness to the magic that is possible when we say yes to our own and each other’s healing.īonnie Wills received her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Ecology at John F. I have spent much of my adult life working in Bay Area restorative justice organizations helping to create healing spaces for women of color survivors of sexual harm, currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, and youth in Oakland and Richmond schools. criminal legal system, a part of my journey also includes challenging the field of social work’s complicity with the carceral system and uplifting alternative responses to harm that create true safety and wholeness for all communities. As an abolitionist and as someone whose family has been impacted by the U.S. I am currently studying to get a Masters in Social Work at Smith School for Social Work. I was born and raised in the East Bay, CA, and identify as a biracial (Mexican-American and white), queer/bisexual, cisgender woman.
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