Promoting Community Justice Through Spatial Analysis and Community-Based Accountability
Our communities know what justice looks like in practice, which informs every aspect of our approach to community-partnered research. Together, we’re promoting community justice.
Applied community evaluation projects
Twin Cities: Legal Rights Center Restorative Justice Program
Rural Minnesota: Carlton County Diversion
Reimagining Youth Justice in Ramsey County
It is time for real change in our youth justice system. Leaders in Ramsey County are partnering with the Liberation Lab on (Re)Imagining Justice for Youth (RJY), an initiative that has proven successful in shifting the legal system to be more restorative and prevent harm from recurring. Following the program’s pilot year, the Lab produced a summative data dashboard and extensive evaluation report that identified early successes and next steps to grow the program.
Asset-Based Community Development, A Collaboration with Dr. Michelle Pasco
Dr. Michelle Pasco’s research uses a culturally-informed lens to understand the lived experiences of ethnic-racial minoritized youth and families within neighborhood contexts and uses different methods to examine how neighborhood factors influence them. The Liberation Lab is proud to partner with Dr. Pasco on an Asset-Based Community Development project, with results and takeaways to be published in the future.