Meet the Team
Our services are dependent on a network of community partners, consultants, and facilitators.
Coordinadores de programas
Partnership Development Coordinator
Laura Diamond (she/her)
Laura is a restorative justice practitioner committed to living, learning, and working towards transformative and social justice. She received her Master’s degree from the University of Oregon’s Conflict & Dispute Resolution program with a specialization in International and Regional Conflict. During her study, she researched youth-centered peacebuilding in Jerusalem through a lens of asymmetrical power dynamics and collective identity. Laura developed her mediation and facilitation practice as a volunteer for Lane County Small Claims Court and for the Center for Dialogue and Resolution’s adult diversion program. Laura is a co-owner and coordinator of Conflict Artistry LLC, and serves on the Northwest Justice Forum planning committee. Outside of work, you can find her dancing, expanding her community through activism and art, and exploring all the waterfalls, hot springs, and tall trees Oregon has to offer.
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Community Resource Advocate
Wemimo Ayannubi (she/her)
Wemi is the Community Resource Advocate and RJ Practitioner, her work is centered around holistic healing, with naturopathic practices such as Intentional Community living, herbs, dance, and Equity. She is a Qualified Mental Health Associate(QMHA 1) and does resource navigation work facilitating access to a wide range of social services.
She has worked as a Hotline Support Specialist for the Springfield Eugene Tenant Association, assisting those experiencing conflicts related to housing. As a certified Mediator, Family Mediator, and Restorative Justice Facilitator, she volunteered with Center for Dialogue and Resolution (CDR) in their diversion program.
Wemi also served as the Graduate Resident Director(GRD), for the international community student housing units she herself lived in while completing her M.S. in Conflict & Dispute Resolution at the University of Oregon, where part of her role was facilitating difficult conversations, and conflict resolution . Wemi brings significant experience working with marginalized and disenfranchised populations, communities she is a part of.
Passions: LOVE/Equity- Family, Spirituality, Herbs, Dance, Community, and Culture
Process & Logistics Coordinator
Sophia Solano (she/her/ella)
Sophia is an artist, activist, and community organizer with more than a decade of experience in Oregon's restorative justice movement. She currently works as the Coalition Coordinator for the Restorative Justice Coalition of Oregon (RJCO) as well as the Process & Logistics Coordinator for Conflict Artistry LLC. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy: Ethics, Society and Law from Pacific University, and her M.S. from the University of Oregon's Conflict and Dispute Resolution program. Restorative practices have informed and enriched all of her life, studies and belief systems, especially decolonial praxis, liberation movements, and interdisciplinary arts. Her two twin cats and the kitchen often remind her of everything that is meaningful.
Sexual Violence Program Coordinator
Jessica Klein (they/them)
Jessica Klein (they/them) is a restorative justice facilitator and Sexual Violence Program Coordinator for Conflict Artistry. They are a survivor of domestic and sexual violence and stalking, and have worked in the field of intimate partner harms for nearly a decade as a director, advocate, educator, and friend to survivors. Jessica is passionate about ending generational cycles of trauma and supporting survivor-centered healing through transformative processes. Jessica is also trained as an equity-informed mediator.
Community Education & Engagement Developer
Cameron Hayes (he/him)
Cameron Hayes has been a RJ Practitioner for over 5 years. He was first introduced to RJ while incarcerated. While there he underwent a personal transformation that has influenced the way he engages with Restorative Justice. Seeing RJ as both a path of transformation for the individual, and that of society, he focuses on the intersection of system and agency. As the Community Education & Engagement Developer he works to build connections and spread awareness of RJ through community events.