Sheely Edwards

On Sept. 20, 2023 Marcy Mistrett, ​​Senior Program Manager of the Restorative Justice Project, spoke at the R Street Institute webinar “Justice for All” about the healing effects of restorative justice for both young people and those they’ve harmed.

Next week, Impact Justice will lead a group of formerly incarcerated and allied activists, scholars, and funders on a weeklong visit to Finland where they will learn how Finland went from having one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in Europe in the early 1950s to one of the lowest by the 1990s, a restrained use of jail and prison that continues today. The journey is the latest evolution of our Building Justice project.

Emily Rincon Portrait of Sheely Edwards in front of Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons, where she has spent the last four years, in Salt Lake City on March 23, 2022. (Photo by Emily Rincon | The Daily Utah Chronicle) By Sheely Edwards, Editor-in-Chief April 25, 2022 I spent my first two years of college desperate to prove that I could survive on my own. I approached my undergraduate experience with a tunnel-vision-like focus set on my career and academic success.