Oct 30, 2025
Claire de Mézerville López welcomes Edwin Freeman to the Restorative Works! Podcast.
What happens when hip hop culture meets restorative practices in the classroom? Edwin Freeman, actor, filmmaker, educator, and founder of the Hip Hop Harmony Program, helps us explore how art, culture, and restorative circles are...
Oct 23, 2025
Claire
de Mézerville
López
welcomes Ruth Ifakemi
Efungbemi
Jeannoel
to the
Restorative
Works! Podcast.
Ruth
joins us and shares her powerful journey of weaving ancestral
wisdom, social justice organizing, and restorative justice into
practices that transform communities from within. As founder and
director of Fanm...
Oct 16, 2025
Claire
de Mézerville
López
welcomes Dr.
Ellen Skilton to the
Restorative
Works! Podcast.
Dr. Skilton joins us as
we explore
how creative expression and restorative pedagogy open new pathways
for repair, resilience, and transformation. She shares moving selections from
her poetry manuscript Collateral
Repair,
Oct 9, 2025
Claire de Mézerville López welcomes back Dr. Nicholas Steffner to
the Restorative Works! Podcast.
Dr. Steffner shares compelling findings from his dissertation,
Building Restorative School Communities: A
Study on the Impact of Restorative Practices, including
data from the five-year implementation of restorative...
Oct 2, 2025
On this special episode of the Restorative Works! Podcast, host Claire de Mézerville López welcomes three leaders transforming school culture in Worcester County, Maryland: Dr. Jenifer Rayne, Principal of Pocomoke High School; Carlton Cartwright, Community School Liaison and Restorative Practices Coach; and Lauren...