sujatha baliga, JD, a Berkeley-based, prominent attorney, former Director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice and a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, has been a leading figure in the Restorative Justice Movement with an equal dedication to crime survivors and to people who’ve caused harm. She has helped communities across the nation implement alternatives to juvenile detention and zero-tolerance school discipline policies and also works to end child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence. A long-time Buddhist practitioner, she’s a lay member of the Gyuto Foundation Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Richmond, CA.