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Dr. Bettina Love is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia. She is one of the field’s most esteemed educational researchers. Author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. https://bettinalove.com/

Jodie Geddes is the Community Organizing Coordinator at Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) & author of Little Book of Racial Healing. Jodie an international speaker on restorative justice, author, and advocate for racial justice. A Jamaica, West Indies native by way of Brooklyn, NY Geddes uses her story as a catalyst for creating new narratives about the black experience and the possibilities for healing. https://restorativejusticeontherise.org/resources/restorative-justice-for-oakland-youth-rjoy/

Aaron is the senior program and policy analyst at NEA and has history of building momentum, engagement, and awareness for national initiatives with various stakeholder organizations—advocacy nonprofits, public school districts, foundation partners, and government agencies. Possess particular expertise in education policy and reform, advancing priorities around improving educational outcomes for underrepresented groups based on race, gender, and class; knowledge gained in the field and through formal education 

 Dave is one of the co-founders and co-executive director of Truth Telling Project and the director of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign. David is a writer, scholar and activist. David recently published a series on reparations in Yes Magazine.

Dr. Imani Michelle Scott is a member of the TTP Board, faculty at SCAD and co-author of Crimes against Humanity in the Land of the Free: Can a Truth and Reconciliation Process Heal Racial Conflict in America? https://www.scad.edu/academics/faculty/imani-michelle-scott

Melinda is one of the co-executive directors of Truth Telling Project and director of the Seacoast Peace Academy.  Melinda is a retired professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Education and has taught in K-12 schools.www.melindasalazar.com

Ursula is a first grade teacher  and leader at Vimenti School, Puerto Rico’s first charter school located within the public housing project Ernesto Ramos Antonini in San Juan, Puerto Rico where 90% of the student population lives under the poverty level. https://leadcolab.org/2020/04/the-importance-of-voice/

The Truth Telling Project engages in and offers radical, and participatory learning opportunities focused on healing within communities that experience police violence supporting reconciliation.

Building an inclusive movement by shifting power at the community level & across environmental justice philanthropy.

Life Comes From It is a grantmaking circle. We support grassroots movement-building work rooted in lived experience and relationships for restorative justice, transformative justice, and indigenous peacemaking. We give grants solely to projects and organizations led by communities of color.

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. For more than ten years, the Zinn Education Project has introduced students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. With more than 125,000 people registered, and growing by more than 10,000 new registrants every year, the Zinn Education Project has become a leading resource for teachers and teacher educators.

Purpose Earth’s mission is to fund and mentor purpose-driven people and projects with creative solutions to our global challenges. Through our fundraising efforts, Purpose Earth has been able to award $184,000 to 22 grant recipients in 15+ countries around the world, and we have set the bar even higher for the year ahead with 100% of donations going directly to the grant recipients and their projects.

Seacoast Peace Academy is comprised of a group of committed, concerned local and national peace educators, community activists, young people, and mentors. 

We envision a sustainable culture of peaceful relationships.  Our mission is to develop and encourage communities of learning that foster and enhance a sustainable culture of peaceful relationships in the Greater Seacoast Region of New Hampshire and Maine.

We are cultural organizers and artists working from the frontlines with AgitArte, a project for the working class, in all shapes, forms and intersectionalities. Our work is in response to the mainstream narrative, our work is a counter hegemony to mass media. In our podcast, WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!, we build on the stories from our book published in 2016. And we follow-up on and continue the deep relationships, the human connections that we built with our tribe, our family of collaborators who continue to organize towards our liberation.