CALIFORNIA KING SNAKE / BONE / SCRIMSHAW
“Change requires that we have our fists up in the air and compassion for all parties, even the most extreme…the more we tend to our inner world, the more capacity we have to affect the outer world. Change starts from within.”
-Sonya
Sonya Shah has 20 years of experience in social justice education. She is an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a facilitator of restorative justice processes in her family, community, university and in prison settings. She has trained hundreds of facilitators in trauma healing and restorative justice practices. She’s currently facilitating groups for survivors of sexual harm and people who have committed sexual harm in an inaugural cohort of fellows and grantees with Justice Beginnings Collaborative called Project Ahimsa, which she started in 2015. Sonya has spoken on numerous local and national radio programs including NPR, and the BBC, and has started a blog on Huffington Post.