Cambridge Friends School Presents Talk on Transformative Justice

Rev. Dr. Kaia Stern, educator, author, interfaith minister, and CFS Parent ’16 and ’26, will speak at Cambridge Friends School for its Seminar Series: Transformative Justice and Education. This community conversation about harm and healing, will focus on the ongoing internal, relational, and structural work necessary to achieve change.

Rev. Dr. Kaia Stern has over 25 years of experience being in conversation about justice in various communities. From Sing Sing prison to the White House, she explores what it means to repair harm in relationship and change structures that cause harm. She also considers the internal work necessary to sustain commitments to social justice when there is so much trauma.

“In the presence of soul stirring injustice, how do we imagine justice? How do we embody Quaker values and what is our praxis—that is, how we do education?” Discussing her upcoming talk, Stern adds, “Given Cambridge Friends School's striving to be an antiracist community, I will explore the historical context of racialized punishment in the United States as well as ways to support parents and educators who are working to nurture learning communities that affirm human dignity.”

The event is on Tuesday, March 10, at 6:30 pm at Cambridge Friends School, 5 Cadbury Road, Cambridge, MA. Register online at: www.cambridgefriendsschool.org/seminar-series. Suggested donation is $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Stern’s book Voices from American Prisons: Faith, Education, and Healing will be available for purchase.