Please join us with a talk with Dr. Lauren Abramson on Restorative Approaches. She is the founder of the Baltimore Community Conferencing Center in 1995, as a community-led and community-developed “hub” for conflict resolution and restorative justice.
Lauren Abramson, Ph. D. is a bio-psychologist with over 25 years of experience as a Restorative Practices (RP) practitioner, trainer, and writer. As the Founding Director of one of the first and longest-standing restorative justice programs in urban America, Lauren applies Restorative Practices in courts, juvenile justice, schools, neighborhoods, prisons, and organizations as a means of providing people with collaborative opportunities for understanding, healing, learning, and fair justice. Successes in Baltimore over the past two decades speak to the power of RP to 1) empower individuals and communities to collectively resolve their own crimes and conflicts, 2) address inequities in the criminal legal system, school discipline, etc., and 3) mobilize the wealth of untapped wisdom in all kinds of communities. Lauren has published widely on both the practical and theoretical aspects of RP, and is engaged as a RP facilitator, trainer, and speaker both nationally and internationally.
