Intern Stories: Meet Brelan Wilcher
Brelan Wilcher, operations intern and Millersville University Social Work major Using practices centered around Mediation and Restorative Justice, Advoz centers around healing the harm caused within the community. In one way, it aims to achieve this by serving as a...
Working Upstream to Undo “Criminal Minds”
By Chris Fitz “Matthew” was only 13 years old. But this wasn’t his first run-in with the law. In our meeting, he fluently relayed the ways that adults in his neighborhood called the police about him—and how those complaints added up. He used terms like...
Represent! The Power of Stepping into Harm as a “Victim Representative”
By Krista Rittenhouse Consider this question: What are the odds of success for a young man of 16, who already has a record, dark skin, is in a single-parent home, and has already experienced prison? We can agree, and research shows that he has an uphill battle. One...
On Collaboration
In the following post, I will explore what I learned about collaboration while creating the last two infographics in partnership with friends and Chris Fitz. This is the sequel to last week’s blog post and the final in a series covering a new set of...