Restorative Justice Initiative

Mission

The Restorative Justice Initiative is a group of Penn State students, faculty, staff, and community stakeholders committed to empowering and supporting system-impacted, currently and formerly incarcerated individuals through education and meaningful civic engagement. It believes in the power of trauma-informed practice, liberatory pedagogy, and transformative education and is dedicated to leveraging Penn State’s size, scope, reach, and resources to help make education accessible to all sectors of society. Through education, collaboration, and community engagement RJI works to remove structural barriers to education and reentry while preserving the human dignity of those impacted by the carceral state.