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Volume LXIX, Number 22
www.thejustice.org
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
PANEL
WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE
Panelists call for Restorative Justice to end violence ■ Boston leaders spoke
about the role of forgiveness in bringing peace across local communities. By PERI MEYERS JUSTICE SENIOR WRITER
HEATHER SCHILLER/the Justice
PANEL: Carol Fulp, Rita Hardman, Ruth Nemzoff and Joanne Pokaski spoke at the workshop for young women on Sunday.
Business leaders echo lessons to young women ■ Women leaders shared
their experiences in making themselves a place in the business playing field. By ABBY PATKIN JUSTICE EDITOR
To succeed in business and management, women must turn disadvantages into learning opportunities and achievements, a panel of industry leaders said at an event on Saturday. “I look at difference as an advantage,” said Carol Fulp, president and CEO of The Partnership, which supports multicultural professionals. “You’ve been in situations when people have devalued you, … and I always say, ‘Isn’t that unfortunate for them?’ … Use it as a strength.” “You have to reframe all your liabilities as assets,” agreed Ruth Nemzoff, a Women’s Studies Research Center scholar, former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire legislature and former
New Hampshire deputy commissioner of Health and Welfare. At a certain point, Fulp added, raw intelligence stops being an asset and interpersonal skills come into play. “It’s those that have EQ, emotional intelligence, that rise,” she said. Mentorship is an important component of interpersonal skills, the panelists agreed. “None of us get to the position we’re in without a lot of people behind us,” Dr. Rita Hardiman, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Keolis Commuter Services, said. Hardiman, whose company operates the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail, added that her field is only about 15 percent women. When looking for a mentor, “someone who shares your values is good,” said Joanne Pokaski, director of Workforce Development at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Nemzoff agreed, adding that she has found not a single mentor to guide her but rather “pieces of mentor.”
“It’s great if you find that Prince Charming in the form of a mentor, … but most of us just find pieces of mentor,” Nemzoff said. “And don’t look for someone who looks like you. Look for somebody who can help you with what you need help with.” Still, fearlessness and bravery also factor into success, the panelists said. WSRC scholar Edith Coleman Chears, who facilitated the event, circulated photographs of New York’s “Fearless Girl” statue, which was installed earlier this month. “I would attribute some of my success to being too dumb to be afraid,” Hardiman joked. She recalled being chastised as a child for wanting to play with “boy” toys — “I was too dumb to know that I was bucking the patriarchy,” she laughed. She also recalled writing a controversial editorial for her high school paper and having the superintendent call her mother and tell her to “‘put a muzzle on her daughter.’” Even so, fearlessness does not
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A panel of scholars convened to discuss the role of forgiveness, reconciliation and Restorative Justice in inner-city neighborhoods, wartorn countries and college campuses on Tuesday. “Any time you are dealing with issues around youth violence and gun violence, you’re dealing with broken families, broken communities and people who are incarcerated or getting out of incarceration,” said Reverend Jeffrey Brown, the
University’s 2016 to 2017 Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life. Those situations call for Restorative Justice, he argued — a method of mediation between offenders and victims. When asked to define forgiveness, Rodney Petersen, executive director of The Lord’s Day Alliance of the U.S. and the Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries in Boston, said that he thinks of it as “a process, a perception, a way of life that helps us to no longer be victims of our circumstances and transforms us into creators of a new reality.” While forgiveness is an individual process of giving oneself a clean slate, reconciliation asks that multiple people come together to change. Restorative justice brings together the offender, the
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CAMPUS SPEAKER
Scholar gives Black Lives Matter keynote ■ Khalil Gibran Muhammad
reviewed the precedents set by the progressive work of historical Black activists. By MAURICE WINDLEY JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On the eve of the Black Lives Matter Symposium, keynote speaker Khalil Gibran Muhammad delivered an educational address on the effect of Black activists in dismantling the ingrained bias against Black Americans to a packed audience in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall. At the public event on Thursday, Muhammad sought to explain the development of racial disparities. The Harvard Kennedy School professor of History, Race and Public Policy began his speech by explaining the efforts of Ida B. Wells, an African-American journalist and activist, noting that her foun-
dation enabled Americans to “see in a clearer lens the work that was required to transform and make possible the full vision of Black life in America,” though he noted that she still was “met with so much of the same resistance” of today. Continuing, Muhammad explained that “the limits of Black humanity had nothing to do with respectability” but “had everything to do with standing tall and being human.” He said this served to elucidate the notion that America has fostered a narrative against Black Americans in order to maintain a viewpoint that has lasted throughout history. However, he stressed that the movement and efforts of Black Lives Matter, the international activist group organized against systemic racism toward Black people, is not only a matter of physical importance but rather a “battle of ideas,” and he explained that the
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Print Like the Wind
Track Attack
No Drip
The Brandeis 3D-printing club hosted an intercollegiate printathon.
The track teams impressed with a number of top-10 finishes this past Saturday.
A physics professor developed a new drip-free wine bottle.
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