Restorative Justice and Peacemaking Workshop

Rose Elizondo brings healing, relationship building, accountability, and transformational practices to restorative justice and indigenous peacemaking. As an organizer, she informs, inspires and incubates communities to create alternatives to punitive legal systems by facilitating inquiry into their own indigenous roots of justice. She was awarded a 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship and was invited to help revitalize the healing practices of peacemaking with tribal community leaders in the Southwest. In 2005, with men in San Quentin prison, Rose co-founded the Restorative Justice Interfaith Roundtableto practice accountability and responsibility. She co-founded the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, which supports survivors of crime and implements grassroots community restorative justice. Her intergenerational trauma work with Native and Indigenous communities uses storytelling, truth, reconciliation and reparations processes. Rose incorporates rituals, healing, art, murals, dance and food sovereignty to envision community values and create cultural shifts.