Lindsey Pointer is a restorative practices educator, researcher, and practitioner based in Colorado. She has a PhD in Restorative Justice from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where she helped design and implement the Restorative University initiative. Lindsey is a former Fulbright Fellow and Rotary Global Grant recipient who is passionate about experimenting with new applications of restorative principles and processes and understanding how restorative practices work to transform communities. She has worked internationally with communities in a range of contexts to support the implementation of restorative practices in an engaging, responsive, and fun way.

Lindsey currently works as an Adjunct Professor at Boise State University and offers  training and consulting services to schools, workplaces, and other organizations interested in implementing restorative practices. 

Her first book, The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools: Games, Activities, and Simulations for Understanding Restorative Justice Practices will be published in March 2020.

Grants: 

• 2016 Fulbright US Student Award for Restorative Justice Research in New Zealand
• 2017-2018 Rotary Global Grant Scholar
• 2017 Quaker Peace and Service Aotearoa New Zealand Grant for Restorative Circles for Preventing Sexual Harm in Universities Pilot
• 2018 Victoria University of Wellington Research Excellence Award

Conference Presentations: 

• Teaching Restorative Practices through Games
• Partnering with Police in Restorative Justice Organizations
• Using Strengths and Assets in Restorative Justice

• Restorative Conversations for Resolving One-on-One Conflict

• Building Restorative Communities

2016 Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association Conference

• Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices in Higher Education 

2017 National Association of Restorative and Community Justice Conference in Oakland, CA

• Creating Transformational Space: Ritual and Restorative Justice
• Building a Restorative University 

2017 Victoria University Wellbeing Symposium

• Restorative Practices for Community Wellbeing

•  Teaching Restorative Practices through Games
• Creating Transformational Space: Ritual and Restorative Justice 

2018 Restorative and Māori Justice Approaches to the Prison Crisis in Wellington, New Zealand

• Exploring the Potential of Restorative Circle Practice in Prisons

•  Restorative Justice 

2019 Administrators in Medicine in Fort Worth, Texas

• Keynote: Restorative Practices: A Transformative Way to Respond to Harm