Speaking, Presentations & Public Scholarship

For more than fifteen years, I have contributed to restorative justice education and public scholarship through university lectures, published essays, conference presentations, practitioner trainings, facilitated dialogues, panels, interviews, and international online learning programs.

My conference engagement has included the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (NACRJ) conferences in 2015, 2017, and 2019, where I served in presentation and media roles, conducting interviews and documenting voices from across the field. I have also participated in the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) in Pamplona, Spain (2023) and Tallinn, Estonia (2024), alongside invited university lectures, professional trainings, and public dialogues in the United States and internationally.

Through Restorative Justice on The Rise, I have also produced and hosted an extensive body of long-form public dialogue, bringing practitioners, scholars, community leaders, justice-system professionals, culture-bearers, and others into conversations about restorative justice, incarceration, racial justice, education, trauma, community, and systems change.

My essays have appeared in print publications such as Current Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies, Oxford (2017) as well as in many reputable online outlets including Open Democracy, Daily Good, YES! Online, TruthOut, and Huff Post, to name a few. My chapter/essay, Storytelling and RJ, is part of an Oxford University Encyclopedia on Restorative Justice, forthcoming. 

To find an eclectic mix combining creative writing and selected publications please visit my Medium pages.

For a full catalogue of guests interviewed, please visit www.restorativejusticeonthrise.org or to our podcast at Apple and Spotify. In addition, we have a full catalogue of offerings beyond our podcast at our Padlet site: https://padlet.com/rjonrise

• 2024, Therapy Dogs in Restorative Justice: The power of the human-animal bond in supporting diversion processes. (Presentation), European Forum for Restorative Justice, Tallinn, Estonia (May 2024)

• 2024, Community Held Restorative Justice (Moderator/Speaker), Restorative Justice Coalition of Oregon & the Bend, Oregon District Attorney’s Office.

• 2023, Restorative Justice in Colorado (Presentation), European Forum for Restorative Justice Symposium, Pamplona ESP

• 2022, Restorative Justice and The First Harm, Series with Edward C. Valandra and Edwin Keener

• 2022, Guest Presenter, Missouri State University, Workplace Restorative Justice: Doing for Ourselves What We Do For Our Communities

• 2019, Doing US Justice, Online Panel Series on Racial and Restorative Justice featuring Troy Williams, Seema Gajwani, Eric Butler, Edward C. Valandra, more

• 2019, The Redemption Project Discussion Series (Host/Producer) in partnership with CNN/Van Jones and the REFORM Alliance

• 2014, HBO Premiere Press Pass, Which Way Is The Front Line From Here (New York HBO Studios) 

• 2014-Present, Visiting Lecturer, The College of Idaho 

  • Just Mercy: Restorative Justice and Bryan Stevenson’s Lived Vision

  • In-Class Lectures, The Evidence of Restorative Justice (Criminal Justice Dept Host)

• 2015 & 2017, NACRJ US/Global Conferences 

  • Onsite podcast lives and interviews with Global Thought Leaders and Youth/Adult restorative justice facilitators, stakeholders

  • Police and Community Relations (alongside Mike Gilbert, Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg) 

  • Restorative Justice Policy & Practice (co-presented with Dr. Sandra Pavelka)