OVERVIEW
Christine is a restorative justice practitioner and educator with more than 20 years of experience facilitating healing-centered approaches to accountability and repair. Her work focuses on peace circles, victim–offender dialogue, mediation, and reconciliation, fostering environments where individuals and communities can move toward understanding and transformation.
At Adler University, she serves as the coordinator of Healing Beyond Harm through the Institute of Public Safety and Social Justice and acts as an advisor and thought partner on restorative practices in schools, prisons, and community settings. She has trained more than 100 schools in restorative practices and manages the Illinois Apology Letter Bank, which supports individuals seeking to write letters of apology to those they have harmed.
MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS
- National Defense Victim Outreach
- National Association of Community and Restorative Justice
Presentations
Journal of Law and Social Policy Symposium – Healing Our Justice System: Restorative Justice and the Law.
2017
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Restorative Justice: Theory Meets Application.
2015
Symposium of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review
LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT
As Associate Director of Precious Blood Ministries of Reconciliation, I managed a project that addressed gun violence in the Back of the Yards neighborhood using alternatives to incarceration practices.
