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নমস্কার, saludos, salaam, terveisiä: warmest greetings to you! Thank you for visiting my website. Here you can find information on how I might work with you on conflict transformation, anti-oppression, artistic resistance, and more. I am a cultural worker and facilitator in people's movements for justice and dignity. Using personal narrative and embodied practice, I deepen conversations across difference and cultivate humanizing relationships. I integrate tools from multiple traditions to recover human connection between people at different ends of historical injustice. I mobilize my survivorship from violence for radical love, with an eye toward (dis)ability, disrupting power & hierarchy, and stopping harm. Here are some highlights. Please be in touch
Restorative Justice & Mental HealthInterview with former student Citlali Sanchez Udovic for Chapter 510's Fishbowl podcast
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"A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song": interfacing with criminal-legal system, violence, brain injury, healing through theater & embodiment

Tatiana Chaterji's Beyond HR Reporting workshop provides an incredible amount of deep, human-centered insight coupled with down-to-earth practical guidance on how to handle difficult issues in an impressively compassionate, restorative way that also achieves real justice. You can tell how thoughtfully she has developed these materials through her own lived experience in addition to many years of hard work around transformative and restorative justice. The principles backed up by several real examples of success in achieving RJ,  something much of our world still struggles to even imagine as a goal.

  -- Chand John, software engineer

Tatiana made me want to pay attention. It was her energy, body language, tone of voice. That really counts when you're teaching or leading a group.

  -- Diamond, CURYJ youth leader who attended verbal de-escalation workshop 

Teachers, Lineages, Skillsets & Guiding Frameworks

Paolo Freire, Popular Education & Participatory Action Research, Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, Combahee River Collective, Silvia Federici, Selma James, Marxist Feminism, Transformative Justice, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, INCITE! Women and Trans People of Color Against Violence, Sistas Liberated Ground, Harm Free Zones, Critical Resistance, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Badal Sircar, the Third Theatre, Arka Mukhopadhyay, Physical Theater, Alternative Living Theatre, Intimate Theater, Bibhaban, Jerzy Grotowski, June Jordan, Mahasweta Devi, Bauls and Fokirs of Bengal, caste abolition, Ambedkarite organizations in the diaspora and homeland, Restorative Justice, Community-Based Non-Legal Conflict Mediation, Non-Carceral Harm Response, Alternatives to Incarceration, Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Prison Abolition, Counter-Militarism & Truth-in-Recruiting, Susan Quinlan, Pablo Paredes, Ty Marshall, Abe Velazquez, Spoken Word Poetry, Saul Williams, Drama Therapy, Psychodrama, Playback Theater, Self-Revelatory Performance, capoeira, Kalaripayattu, chhau nach, Qigong, decolonial dharma, youth leadership, youth development, intergenerational partnership, and many more including countless students, collaborators & co-conspirators

Digital land acknowledgment inspired by Shira Hassan:

I created this website in Oakland, California, on the unceded territory of the Ohlone people whose name for this place is Huichin (xučyun). I give thanks to the keepers of this land while acknowledging the massive technological inequities and climate impacts from the Internet that disproportionately affect indigenous people across the globe. I stand in solidarity with the Land Back movement and with all communities fighting to prevent/mitigate environmental damage from powering the data centers/servers that make virtual platforms possible.

Additionally, on this website I have used pictures of textiles, mostly from Bengal and other parts of South Asia. I am grateful to the artisans who weaved, dyed, and produced these materials and others with longstanding knowledge of their craft. I advocate for the protection of traditional livelihoods and celebrate cultural expression.

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"I’ve been working at Juvenile Hall for 20 years and I have never seen the kids so engaged. I mean, out of their seat, paying attention, being positive." - Juvenile Justice Probation Officer 

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