Brenna Case presents Master's degree capstone

2018 May 22

Second-year master's degree candidates in the conflict transformation and restorative justice programs at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding are required to fulfill a practicum or research project.

Brenna Case of Harrisonburg, VA, presented a practicum project entitled 'Everyone wants a revolution but nobody wants to do the dishes: Reflections on being a white American in justice work.'

Brenna spent her practicum in the design, monitoring, and evaluation department of the International Center for Transitional Justice, and as a researcher for a mapping initiative run by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, building networks between various organizations working to transform violence against African Americans within the U.S. She learned about creating feedback loops, networks and emergent spaces to support existing justice work, and examined her own positionality and the navigation of identities of privilege within international and domestic justice initiatives.