“Wisdom is like the baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.” -Ewe proverb
TRC was featured in a video on restorative justice training in partnership with Syracuse City School District
Leaders of Change: Students Empowered through Restorative Justice Fellowship
“‘Especially as we get older, we need to have the independence and the capacities to solve problems on our own,’ incoming We Are ITC freshman Sanai Everson shared. ‘We need to learn how to solve problems, talk, listen, and help our community. Doing this restorative justice work has made me realize that we aren’t really all that different. We’re all people.’ SCSD students are becoming leaders in restorative justice, thanks to a new Restorative Justice Fellowship. Read more
CamCo Commissioners To Offer Free Restorative Justice Training
“Community members, educators, students, and stakeholders will have the opportunity to participate in free restorative justice training through the nonprofit The Restorative Center in partnership with Camden County, Camden City, and the Camden City School District.” Read more
WGXC Morning Show: Shailly Agnihotri
Host Tom Roe speaks with attorney Shailly Agnihotri, founder and President of the Board of The Restorative Center in Newburgh, NY. Agnihotri discusses the Week of Restorative Justice in Hudson, from August 15 to 21.
Architecture Off-Centre podcast: On Restorative Justice with TRC Founder Shailly Agnihotri
Architecture Off-Centre highlights unconventional design practices and research projects, which reflect various emerging discourses within the design discipline and beyond. Hosted by architect Vaissnavi Shukl, the podcast features engaging conversations with exceptionally creative individuals, who, in their practice, have extrapolated the traditional fields of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design to unexplored frontiers.
JUNETEENTH IN JACKSON
The Juneteenth Community Circle: A Conversation on Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice
Shailly Agnihotri and Tecoria Jones, Circle Keepers
Ms. Sharon Brown, Community Activist
Mr. Jarvis Dortch, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi
Mr. Hillman Frazier, Senator, MS-27th District
The Honorable Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor, City of Jackson
Atty. Rukia Lumumba, Founder, People’s Advocacy Institute
Ms. Jonique Williams, Granddaughter of Edwin Williams
Dr. B. D’Andra Orey, Professor of Political Science, Jackson State University
Mr. De’Keither Stamps, Representative, MS-66th District
Ms. Zakiya Summers, Representative, MS-68th District
Shailly Agnihotri guides circle participants through a conversation about their experiences and efforts confronting truth, harm, and justice.
Two Mississippi Museums, Jackson, MS (June 18, 2021)
JUNETEENTH IN JACKSON
Reflections on the UNRESOLVED: A Healing Circle to Reckon with Historical Harms (begins at 30:00 minute mark)
Shailly Agnihotri and Tecoria Jones, Circle Keepers
Brother Louis Ali, Son of Louis Allen
Reverend Eddie Carthan, Cousin of Emmett Louis Till
Ms. Denise Ford, Daughter of Wharlest Jackson
Mr. Charles McLaurin, Civil Rights Veteran
Dr. Hollis Watkins, Civil Rights Veteran
Dr. Flonzie Brown Wright, Civil Rights Veteran
Circle participants reflect on the impacts of racial harm on the individual, family and community levels. Pulling from lived experiences and advocacy, participants will discuss how violence shook communities in the fight for freedom and the importance of truth-telling and activism through the generations.
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (June 18, 2021)
Meet the Circle Keepers
Hear from some of our circle keepers about what restorative justice means to them.
What’s Next Magazine
Rethinking Incarceration: A World with Restorative Justice by Sara Ali
“According to Shailly Agnihotri, founder and president of The Restorative Center, implementing a system of human engagement connects individuals, rather than the current institutions that disconnect us. To address mass incarceration, the people need to collectively reimagine what justice, crime, and non-punitive responses can look like.”
The Power and Potential of Restorative Justice: Roundtable at the 11th Annual RootsCampLA Conference. (March 27, 2021). Panelists include formerly incarcerated advocates, community leaders, professors, and SULC students working in Restorative Justice, as well as prosecutors and police. The event was a joint efforts of the The Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice at Southern University Law Center, The Restorative Center and the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law.
More information on our 2021 conference can be found here.
WNYC
"Using ‘restorative justice’ feels like three steps back—using that term to do the opposite of what it was intended or potentially can do," said Shailly Agnihotri, who runs the Restorative Center in Newburgh (February 23, 2021).
Gothamist / WNYC
Feb. 23, 2021
Restorative Justice Advocates Say D.A.'s Treatment Of Amy Cooper "Reeks Of Unfairness"
The philosophical foundation of restorative justice and a vision of Justice.
Garrison Institute Justice Forum (December 15, 2020)
What does it mean to Reclaim Justice?
Opening remarks by Shailly Agnihotri at the 2020 Reclaim Justice Conference.
'True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality' Film Discussion
2020 Reclaim Justice Conference
Cori Bush Keynote
We need to build a new system. Cori Bush keynote address.
2020 Reclaim Justice Conference
More information on our 2020 conference can be found here.
Restorative justice is “a social movement seeking to transform the way society conceives of justice” Shailly Agnihotri & Cassie Veach, Reclaiming Restorative Justice: An Alternate Paradigm for Justice, 20 CUNY L. Rev. 323 (2017).
Legislative Session “Restorative Justice is an opportunity to restore the relations between government and citizens.” Shailly Agnihotri at a special legislative session in Ulster County, NY.
SULC panel discussion: How To Prepare Your Heart And Mind For Racial Reconciliation
Criminal Law and RJ
RJ to reclaim humanity
Shailly Agnihotri in conversation with the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution
Race in America - Truth & Reckoning
Without RJ “are we really giving everyone the opportunity to say their truth?” 2020 Reclaim Justice Conference Roundtable
Is Restorative Justice The Answer?
Exploring a powerful potential Southern University students and faculty along with The Restorative Center (TRC)
RJ in Schools, Workplaces & Communities
Looking for solutions not the punitive.
2020 Reclaim Justice Conference Roundtable
Times Herald Record
‘Circles’ bring a community together
TRC Training: Meet The Teachers
What is the world we want to see?
WNYC news story
“While mediation seeks to resolve conflicts, RJ seeks a deeper engagement with the philosophical underpinnings of conflict— humans’ lack of empathy and understanding of another’s point of view." Shailly Agnihotri
End of the Road podcast
RJ is the process of “sitting in circles, sharing stories with humility to sort out the complexities of the lives you have been presented.” Shailly Agnihotri
Hudson Valley Magazine writes:
“You may not have heard of The Restorative Center yet, a restorative justice non-profit founded by Shailly Agnihotri in 2015. But the Center has a mission…”
Chronogram