Introducing:
The Circle Keepers
The Circle Keepers dismantles the school-to-prison pipeline by training & empowering youth as restorative justice practitioners, community organizing activists and socially conscious artists who bring healing, restoration and transformation into their communities in ways that center the voices, lived experiences and yearnings of young people in their pursuit of peace, safety, healing, and justice.
“There’s Power Everywhere There's People”
Chairman Fred Hampton
Cohort '23
Cohort 23 come together in August 2020, just as members entered 9th grade in remote learning. In the past three and a half years, they facilitated over 300 school based mediations, trained hundreds of youth and school bases staff in restorative practices, traveled the country to present educational workshops and have produced many restorative justice community based events.
Vision
We are equal parts political education hub, arts-based mentorship space, and family dinner!
We deeply believe that Restorative Justice is about creating, sustaining & repairing healthy relationships.
Circle Keepers aims to create and foster an environment for students to develop their identities as peacemakers & changemakers!
Brand Ned Pictures
Here are some DOPE and LIFE AFFIRMING NEW professional photos by our collaborator Gidra Studios.
Address
Brooklyn, NY
The Lenape land, or Lenapehoking, included parts of what are now New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Europeans arrived in the 1600s, colonizing this land, taking an unforgivable human toll, and forever altering the natural history of this continent.
Phone
646-207-3996