A response to the shooting in Connecticut

Kindergartners, God. They were kindergartners. Images of smiling small faces, with too-big backpacks and loose teeth filled my mind, my own gap toothed six-year-old among them. Such promise, such innocence. Taken. Violently. Gone. Worlds forever changed. My first impulse was to drive to my children’s school, hold them close and take them home where I [...]

Healing at UC Davis

It has been nearly six months since the pepper spraying of student protestors at UC Davis, almost half a trip around the sun since I was called the next day to mediate between Chancellor Katehi and students when she was “trapped” in a campus building. The exit we facilitated, now known as “the walk of [...]