Collective Healing
The Braxton Institute focuses on:
Collective Trauma and Collective Healing
Transformative Justice and Healing
Ritual and Healing
Learn more about our work on Healing. View resources.
Moral Injury
With our partners, the Soul Repair Center and Volunteers of America, the Braxton Institute has been deeply involved in developing research, scholarship, and education on moral injury in a wide variety of contexts including national and regional conferences, trainings, and symposia.
Learn more about our work on Moral Injury. View resources.
Dialogues on Resisting & Thriving
Since 2014, the Braxton Institute has held regular Dialogues on Resisting and Thriving in person and online.
Our most recent initiative in our Dialogues on Resisting and Thriving is our Covid-19 Response: Tree of Life: Black Faith Matters, with generous support from the Center for African-American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice at Columbia University and the Henry Luce Foundation.
Rita Charon, MD and Rebecca Parker discuss Reparations.
Healthcare
In the realm of healthcare our work focuses on health equity and on curriculum development for medical education.
Learn more about our work on Health Equity.
Learn more about our work on Curriculum Development for Medical Education.
Policy Advocacy for Transformative Justice & Repair
The Braxton Institute is a proud signatory of HR 40, a bill that is forming “a commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African Americans Act.”
Learn more about our work on HR 40 and Reparations.
Learn more about our work on other policy advocacy.
Mass Incarceration & Clemency
Learn more about our work on Mass Incarceration & Clemency. View resources.
