TOPIC: Transforming Justice in Education - Building a Beloved Future

Maisha T. Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor and the Co-Founder and Co-director of the Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. Professor Winn’s program of research examines the ways in which teachers and/or adult allies for youth in schools and in out-of-school contexts practice “justice” in the teaching of literacy.

Lawrence “Torry” Winn (Ph.D. Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, MDiv Princeton, JD Vanderbilt University Law School, and BA University of California, Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Education in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center. His program of research examines race, critical consciousness and social capital in out-of-school learning spaces and transformative justice pedagogy and practice within schools.