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CJP
READ THE CJP IMPACT REPORT HOW HAS CJP CHANGED in the year 2020-21? How do we do justice and peacebuilding education in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, sustained racism and oppression, poverty and inequality, global climate change, and political polarization? What has changed in the way we do our work? What needs to continue? The CJP Impact Report attempts to answer these questions and more: • Read about two grads of the new MA in Transformational Leadership program. • Learn how a network of CJP alumni and friends is working to change the criminal justice system of Virginia. • Meet new faculty and staff, including lawyer and conflict transformation practitioner Jackie Font-Guzmán, EMU’s new executive director of diversity, equity, and education. • See what CJP alumni are doing, their endeavors, nourishing connections and a bounty of interesting works. Special thanks to the donors who help us to connect peacebuilders with education, skills, support, and mentorship. LEARN MORE AT EMU.EDU/PEACEBUILDER
COMMENCEMENT 2022
BRYAN STEVENSON
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
STUDENTS ARE FORTUNATE when the authors of their university’s Common Read selections visit campus, but such visits are rare when that author is a person of such stature as Bryan Stevenson, attorney, best-selling author, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, the organization responsible for the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel & Grau, 2014) has been integrated in many course syllabi throughout the academic year. Stevenson will give the Commencement address Saturday, May 8. The event will be livestreamed. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT EMU.EDU/COMMENCEMENT
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