Chimdindu Okafor is a 17-year-old high school senior at North Star Academy in Newark, NJ as well as a local youth activist. A lot of her activism centers around educational equality, black liberation, prison abolition, and eradicating medical racism and implicit biases.
You will meet Chimdindu (2:15), and hear about the article she wrote about restorative justice in her school (3:47) and expanding her view of restorative justice (15:34). She also shares a reflection on Monique Morrison’s writing on the criminalization of students. Also, she shares her plans for the future (28:57) and answers the closing questions (33:03).
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Read Chimdindu’s articles:
https://newark.chalkbeat.org/2022/1/7/22869270/restorative-justice-pilot-no-excuses
https://newark.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/1/22910915/hbcu-historically-black-college-experience
Get yourself a copy of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris:
https://pushoutfilm.com/book
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