Amanda Kemp to Accept Dignity in Dialogue Award on April 19

Mar 23, 2018 | Events, News

Scholar, teacher, poet, playwright, performer, activist, author, workshop facilitator: Dr. Amanda Kemp has carved a creative and courageous path of conversation-making, much of it right here in Lancaster County. Dr. Kemp has been nominated for Advoz’s 2018...

Amanda Kemp to Accept Dignity in Dialogue Award on April 19

Mar 23, 2018 | Events, News

Scholar, teacher, poet, playwright, performer, activist, author, workshop facilitator: Dr. Amanda Kemp has carved a creative and courageous path of conversation-making, much of it right here in Lancaster County. Dr. Kemp has been nominated for Advoz’s 2018...

Last Call to Circle Up Film Screening – March 22

Mar 21, 2018 | Events, News, Restorative Justice

A few seats remain for tomorrow’s Circle Up movie screening at Penn Cinema, 7 pm, Thursday, March 22, 2018. The film follows Janet Connors and another mother, Clarissa Turner (pictured in the screenshot below, right to left)  as they reach out to those who...

Restorative Justice with Mark McKenzie on WSBA/WARM103

Jan 21, 2018 | News, Restorative Justice

Listen as Mark McKenzie, from WSBA and WARM103, brings Molly Sollenberger and Chris Fitz on the air, this past fall, to discuss Advoz’s restorative justice through face-to-face dialogue involving crime victims and offenders. Also chronicled on the video Make...

Getting the “why” of Advoz

Jan 16, 2018 | News

From Marina McDonough, Advoz fall intern, sophomore at Harrisburg Area Community College Interning in the Advoz office this past fall, I’ve seen some of the most routine and most interesting parts of the work. During one of our weekly meetings, we went through a group...

Learning from Pennsylvania’s founding dialogue traditions

Dec 18, 2017 | News

By Chris Fitz A version of this article appeared in the Winter 2017-18 issue of The Dialogue. Credit also goes to Gisele Siebold, Natural Awakenings Lancaster, Tom Ryan and Leroy Hopkins of LancasterHistory.org for compiling the story. When European settlers arrived...