Pranis, Kay

Kay Pranis is a trainer and writer on Peacemaking Circles and restorative justice. She served as the Restorative Justice Planner for the Minnesota Department of Corrections from 1994 to 2003.

Since 1998, Kay has conducted Circle trainings in a diverse range of communities--from schools to prisons to workplaces to churches, and from rural towns in Minnesota to Chicago's South Side to Montgomery, Alabama.

She has written numerous articles on restorative justice and co-wrote Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community.

Kay's intention in her work is to create spaces in w