Meet Your Facilitators 

This training is facilitated by Kathleen McGoey and Lindsey Pointer, authors of The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools (Good Books, 2020) and The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools for Online Learning (Good Books, 2024), along with Gilbert Salazar and Erica Lee.

Kathleen McGoey is a trainer and facilitator of restorative justice practices & conflict transformation. She has an MA in International Peace & Conflict Studies from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and is the former Executive Director of Longmont Community Justice Partnership (LCJP), where she led community restorative justice programs. Kathleen was first drawn to peacebuilding while working on the U.S.-Mexico border, where she coordinated a service-learning program in Tijuana. In addition to the Restorative Teaching Tools books, Kathleen is the author of Harmonizing Heavens and Earth: A Daoist Shamanic Approach to Elicitive Conflict Transformation (Lit Verlag, 2013).

Lindsey Pointer is a Research Professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School and Principal Investigator of the National Center on Restorative Justice. She has a PhD in Restorative Justice from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and is a former Fulbright Fellow and Rotary Global Grant recipient. Lindsey has worked as a restorative justice facilitator, community program manager, educator, and researcher. In addition to the Restorative Teaching Tools books, Lindsey is the author of The Restorative Justice Ritual (Routledge, 2021), and a children’s picture book about restorative justice, Wally and Freya (Good Books, 2022).

Gilbert Salazar will facilitate a series of three workshops over the course of the three-day training. These workshops will incorporate modalities of applied theater, somatic and sensorial work, and arts-based methodologies for reflection and connection. Gilbert Salazar’s work lies in the intersection of community, culture-building and leadership, storytelling and story development, ritual, and theater for healing and liberation. Gilbert has worked in the field of Restorative Justice in schools where he has provided trainings, coaching and curriculum development. Gilbert offers liberatory coaching to educators, artists and practitioners. Gilbert is also a playwright and has produced his first short film, ‘Sippin’’ based on the excerpts of the play in his chapter for Colorizing Restorative Justice. 

Gilbert uses applied theater techniques and trauma informed strategies in his work as a Restorative Justice trainer, university lecturer, and artist. He is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Depth Psychology with a specialization in Communal, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-psychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Erica Lee is an aspiring cultural auntie who is aligned with methods of building peaceful societies. She is particularly attuned to life-ways that value play, community, authenticity, freedom, democracy, reparations and creativity as essential components to course-correct late-stage capitalism. Her work as a visionary justice keeper and elder sister highlights the relationship between family systems, environment, movement building, business, compassion and awareness.

Erica has served as a recovery coach, yoga teacher, health educator, restorative justice practitioner and community organizer. Her work is informed by essential characters in her life, primarily her grandmother, family, beloved mentors and friends, as well as defining chapters such as being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition at a young age and working in her family restaurant as an influential hub of commerce and collectivity. Erica’s dream is to develop a universal preventative healthcare model that integrates public safety, agriculture, housing and finance into public-private partnerships with an emphasis on cooperative community development. Her play (can we move beyond “work”?) can be found at www.rjpractice.com.