Transformative Justice Hub and Skill Up
Fellowship
The Transformative Justice Hub supports people working together to foster Transformative Justice (TJ) practices to end violence, harm, and criminalization through organized information, resources, skill-building, and practice tools.
We know that Transformative Justice builds through practicing skills like having difficult conversations, conflict de-escalation, making good apologies, and facilitating mediation as core tools for preventing harm and violence by engaging conflict in healthy ways. But practicing Transformative Justice can be hard, especially without low-stakes, supportive environments to try and try again with other people. Building on the core principle that there are no TJ “experts,” but there is critical knowledge and expertise that can only be developed through practice and learning together, the TJ Hub is an online platform in development that is intended to be connected to in-person organizing and TJ work.
Currently being honed with TJ practitioners, organizers, and educators, the TJ Hub will provide space for building Transformative Justice infrastructures through open information sharing, mutual learning, and skill development. The Hub will allow people to find, organize, and share resources; do self-directed study of TJ skills; build infrastructure for organizing TJ work locally; and be supported through workshops, live practice sessions, community conversations, and one-on-one appointments. TJ Hub & Skill Up Fellow, Shana Agid, is a community-based designer focused on collective and collaborative processes for making abolitionist infrastructures.
Shana Agid | Transformative Justice Hub and Skill Up Fellowship
Shana Agid (she/he/they) is an artist/designer, teacher, and organizer whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference in visual, social, and political cultures. Their design work focuses on exploring possibilities for making self-determined services and campaigns through teaching, learning, and design research. As a Fellow at Interrupting Criminalization, they are working to design and imagine spaces for learning and building long-term TJ practices with people.