Empower - SPONSORSHIP DECK - VIRTUAL EVENT OCTOBER 14, 2021 - Western Justice Center
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Empower
AN EVENING OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, EQUITY AND COMMUNITY
VIRTUAL EVENT OCTOBER 14, 2021
SPONSORSHIP DECK
Dear Friends,
Western Justice Center (WJC) is proud to announce Empower 2021, an evening dedicated to the people
whose commitment to youth empowerment, equity and conflict resolution education are shaping our collective future.
We thank all the law firms, companies, foundations, individuals, community partners and
government leaders who have supported our work in decades past and hope to welcome more of you into the
WJC family this year.
This is a moment that calls on all of us to think expansively and equitably. That is why WJC has
re-dedicated itself to bringing the transformative power of conflict resolution education to communities hardest hit by the
inter-connected pandemics of COVID, racism and poverty.
WJC helps to build a more just and equitable future by equipping the next generation with the tools to
confront, embrace the complexities of, and resolve conflicts. We help communities use mediation and restorative practices
to disrupt the school to prison pipeline. We challenge students to connect their work as mediators to movements for
social change, help them launch civic engagement projects, and give them access to job training. We support young people
by engaging educators, the judiciary, the legal community and retired people from all walks of life as mentors and role
models of what the future can hold.
As school districts prepare to return to in-person learning, educational leaders from the San Gabriel Valley
to Southeast Los Angeles and the South Bay are reaching out to WJC. Together, we are building partnerships to advance
their goal of creating schools capable of addressing the disparate impact that COVID, traditional school discipline and
over-policing have had on students of color.
Together, we are determined to offer an antidote to the politics of division gripping our nation --
so that we may “lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us,” as poet Amanda Gorman shared
so eloquently in her inaugural poem “We Climb the Hill.”
That is why we need your support now more than ever.
WJC invests deeply in people because we know that even a small group of empowered students
and the caring adults who support them can transform their entire school or community. We also know that mediation
helps students expand their social-emotional learning and acquire project-based skills, which helps them build a
brighter future.
With you as our partners, WJC can continue to make transformative change in our schools and
communities. To quote Ms. Gorman once more -- “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only
we’re brave enough to be it.”
Now is the time. Let’s be brave together.
Elissa D. Barrett, Esq. Tanya Acker, Esq. Gordon Goldsmith, Esq.
Executive Director Empower Co-Chair Empower Co-Chair
WJC Executive Board Member WJC Board Member
Our Guiding Principles
W JC was founded in 1987 by a group of judges, lawyers,
and civic leaders led by the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson,
senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
WJC’s founding members sought innovative ways to handle
conflict by using alternative dispute resolution techniques in
and beyond the court system. Their aim was for WJC to serve
as a thought leader, convener, and capacity builder in the field
of conflict resolution education.
OUR MISSION
WJC empowers people to strengthen
their communities by growing the
conflict resolution skills and capacity
of youth, educators, schools, and
community partners.
VISION
WJC envisions a world in which
communities are healed, united,
and transformed through conflict
resolution education and practices
rooted in equity, justice, and
opportunity.
CORE VALUES
EMPATHY: We listen with open hearts and minds, willing to be moved to action.
EMPOWERMENT: We believe in and support the power of people acting individually and collectively to
shape their lives and communities.
EQUITY: We dedicate ourselves to fair treatment, opportunity and advancement for all, because every
person deserves the chance to pursue their innate human potential.
INCLUSION: We actively seek out, embrace, and elevate the perspectives and life experience of people
of diverse backgrounds.
IMPACT: We hold ourselves accountable for making a difference, and we do it with integrity.
Our Impact
WHY OUR WORK MATTERS
Our society is increasingly divided and divisive. For decades, we have employed retributive policies in our schools
and communities that have failed to yield justice, equity, or safety. Each time we choose to punish and remove people
whose behavior we find aberrant, disruptive, or disquieting, we pay the price of lost human potential and of lost
opportunities for healing, growth, and transformation.
We start paying that price early in life. We pay it in lost learning time, decreased academic performance, higher
dropout rates, and lost earning capacity. We pay the price when traditional school discipline and policing practices
land disparately on students of color. We pay it when young people direct the pain of verbal and physical abuse
inward (anxiety, depression, suicide) or outward (bullying, hate incidents, homicides) with increasingly devastating
consequences. And, we pay it when young people enter adulthood ill-equipped to navigate the stresses of modern life.
That is why WJC’s work to support, study, and expand the impact of conflict resolution education and practices in
our schools and communities is critical. Schools that consistently invest in conflict resolution practices see reduced
suspensions and expulsions; decreased classroom disruption; reduced absenteeism; improved socio-emotional learning;
and, even improved academic performance. With effective conflict resolution education and the support of trained
adults, a small group of empowered young people can transform the dynamics of an entire school or community.
What they learn about how to listen to each other and engage in difficult conversations about complex social issues
can change the course of their lives. These transformative effects are far reaching, because students with increased
agency and confidence use what they learn to shape their families, communities, and futures.
Students with increased
agency and confidence use
what they learn to shape
their families, communities,
and futures.
Where We Are Headed
4 Years 1,000 Leaders 15,000 Youth
In the next 4 years, WJC will train and mobilize students, educators and volunteers -
empowering them with the conflict resolution skills they need to
transform schools and communities in our region.
WHAT WE WILL DO
Over the next four years, WJC will train and mobilize 1,000 students, educators,
and volunteers with the conflict resolution skills they need to transform
school culture and climate for more than 15,000 youth by building
conflict resolution leadership teams at 30 schools across the
Greater Los Angeles Area. We will continue to improve
and enhance our conflict resolution education
programs by adding opportunities for civic
engagement and leadership development
for youth and by adding curriculum
responsive to the issues of our time
for youth and adults. We will launch
a first-of-its-kind in the nation
five-year pilot project to study
the impact of conflict resolution
education on an entire school
district. And, we will share what we
learn in all these efforts in order
to catalyze changes in how our
region and state approach student
discipline and engagement.
Who We Honor W JC annually recognizes the changemakers who empower people to transform their communities into places where justice, equity and opportunity can flourish based on principles of conflict resolution and restorative justice. CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE are tireless advocates of conflict resolution education and restorative practices to support healing, growth and transformation in our communities. DEFENDERS OF JUSTICE are law firms that demonstrate a continuous and distinguished record of supporting alternative dispute resolution, restorative justice and community involvement in areas with higher levels of need and inequities. ADVOCATES OF JUSTICE are corporations, or corporate executives, that demonstrate a continuous and distinguished record of improving the communities in which they do business by supporting programs rooted in equity, justice, and opportunity.
Past Honorees 2019 2010 Champion of Justice: Richard Chernick, Esq. Champion of Justice: Azim Khamisa Defender of Justice: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP Defender of Justice: Latham & Watkins, LLP Advocate of Justice: Northern Trust Advocate of Justice: Southern California Edison 2018 2009 Champion of Justice: Judge Judith Chirlin (Ret.) Champion of Justice: Dawn Anna Defender of Justice: Susman Godfrey, LLP Defender of Justice: O’Melveny & Myers LLP Advocate of Justice: CBS’s Madam Secretary Advocate of Justice: Navigant Consulting, Inc. 2017 2008 Champion of Justice: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Champion of Justice: Clarence Avant; Alexandra Nechita Defender of Justice: Glaser Weil, LLP Defender of Justice: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Advocate of Justice: Universal Music Group Advocate of Justice: The Walt Disney Company 2016 Champion of Justice: John Quiñones Defender of Justice: Allen Matkins Advocate of Justice: Wells Fargo 2015 Champion of Justice: Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Defender of Justice: Girardi | Keese Advocate of Justice: City National Bank 2014 Champion of Justice: Thomas A. Saenz, Esq. Defender of Justice: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP Advocate of Justice: Kaiser Permanente 2013 Champion of Justice: Dr. Terrence J. Roberts Defender of Justice: Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP Advocate of Justice: Toyota Motor Sales, USA 2011 Champion of Justice: Stephen R. English, Esq.; Molly Munger, Esq.; Connie Rice, Esq. Defender of Justice: Lim, Ruger & Kim, LLP Advocate of Justice: Alan Buckelew of Princess Cruises
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