Sexual violence in the United States remains at epidemic levels, affecting people across race, ethnicity, class, and gender identities. Research clearly demonstrates that Black women face heightened risk of both sexual victimization and its devastating mental and physical health consequences compared to White women. This increased vulnerability stems from systemic factors – poverty, childhood trauma, […]
Throughout the two decades of my legal work representing survivors of violent crime, I was often told that sexual harm is an individual problem, solely a conflict between the person who was hurt and the person who harmed them. Yet what I saw on a daily basis is that sexual harm goes beyond this binary, […]
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Coordinated each year by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and supported by survivor advocacy groups and organizations across the country, SAAM focuses on raising awareness about the prevalence of sexual harm, providing support resources for survivors, and educating communities on prevention strategies. The focus of this year’s […]
Happy International Women’s Day! This global celebration honors women’s achievements and calls for us to imagine a gender-equal world, free of bias and discrimination. The IWD campaign theme for 2024 is ‘Inspire Inclusion.’ As highlighted by the official website, “When we inspire others to understand and value women’s inclusion, we forge a better world.” Too […]
In our work, the team at Shared Roots Mediation strives to honor and recognize the communities that originally built, nurtured, and modeled the healing-centered models of justice that we use in our practice today. We are following in the footsteps of generations of activists, organizers, and visionaries from Indigenous, Black, and other historically marginalized communities […]
Mediation refers to a specific dispute resolution practice, which may also be used as part of a restorative justice or transformation justice process if deemed appropriate by those involved. You may be most familiar with the facilitative mediation process, in which the mediator – a neutral third party – assists the parties in the dispute […]
