Erica Lee (she/her)
Longmont, CO
Erica Lee is a sister, cousin, partner, friend and comrade. She serves as a restorative justice business owner, community organizer within affordable housing and emphasizes freedom/libratory practices. She is working to build cross discipline alliances to enhance social justice’s effectiveness through asset based community development. She enjoys consulting with Kathleen McGoey & Associates to coach civil rights attorneys in Restorative Organizational Development process and has organized, facilitated, and evaluated various equity and cultural competency trainings, restorative justice informational sessions, and focus groups utilizing frameworks of vicarious resilience, compassion satisfaction and a trauma informed lens. Erica has also designed and implemented organizational culture, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) and restorative justice programming and facilitated Restorative Justice Facilitator Trainings with attorneys, activists, educators, and social workers. She loves more than most things dance, outdoor excursions and dinner parties.
“For me, in social justice the juice is when we can have a full spectrum of understanding, relating and working to get needs met from every angle… justice is when we are able to bring all that we have to contribute to society. If our body is having a different response than what our mind or gut is saying, we're not gonna be able to live into our values that we're proclaiming…This reality has made me very privy to the word congruence, which I think is kind of a myth. I think there is generally an element of paradox, irony, hypocrisy and contradiction. Accepting that imperfect humanness and still giving our best effort is part of peacebuilding. A loving relationship with our bodies can help us to have more space to hold the complexity of it all.”
