Completed part-time over one academic year beginning in the summer, the program brings together incarcerated learners, community practitioners, and professionals from a range of fields into a fully-remote, shared circle learning environment cohort rooted in relationship and mutual accountability.
Restorative justice is both a practice and a way of understanding justice as relational and collective. The program integrates practical skill-building with cultural, ethical, and theoretical foundations, while engaging questions of power, trauma, identity, and systems change. Highlights of our program are the inside-outside learning model that intentionally bridges lived experience of those currently incarcerated and professional roles supporting learning across differences, and a three-month, supervised practicum supporting application, reflection, and continued growth within a scaffolded learning community.
Program Overview
- Designed for those with a background in restorative justice who have a desire to further engage in restorative justice practices
- Expand and deepen knowledge of cultural, historical, and spiritual roots of restorative justice
- Participate in an experiential program designed to support strengthening understanding of the practices and adapting restorative approaches to community and work
- Learn alongside experienced restorative justice practitioners and educators who bring both lived experience and long-term engagement in the field
- Explore what it takes to practice and sustain restorative justice within and alongside schools, courts, medical institutions and community-based settings
- Complete a supervised practicum that offers real-world experience within your current role or setting
- Engage in ongoing reflection on racial and social justice as essential to restorative justice practice, with attention to power, equity, and accountability
Application Materials
We encourage individuals with a wide array of backgrounds and life experiences to apply to the program. Individuals who may have had prior involvement with the criminal-legal system or those who have formerly been incarcerated are welcome in our program and encouraged to apply. A college degree is not required.
Requirements
Applications for the 2026-2027 academic year are now available—submit your application.
- Submit a completed application—the priority application deadline is May 10, 2026
A limited number of applications submitted after May 10 may be considered on a rolling, space-available basis until May 31, 2026 - Personal statement - Choice of written or video submission
- Resumé
Optional Materials
- Statements of support from supervisors, mentors, teachers, or others who can speak to your interest in the field of restorative justice
- An unofficial transcript indicating the highest level of academic achievement