How Sites of Conscience Can Transform Us
The new season of Solidarity Is This begins with an introduction to the power of sites of conscience. Host Deepa Iyer speaks with Braden Paynter and Ereshnee Naidu at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.
“More and more communities are turning to memory and memorialization as practices for justice and recognition and acknowledgement about what they went through.”
ABOUT THE EPISODE GUESTS
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Ereshnee Naidu is the Senior Director for the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and, Reconciliation, ICSC’s flagship program on transitional justice. Ereshnee has over twenty years of experience designing and implementing community outreach strategies and programs in critical post-conflict settings that include South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, and Colombia, among many others. She is a seasoned educator with extensive curriculum and workshop design experience, and has broad content development, training, and facilitation skills.
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Braden Paynter serves as the Director for Methodology and Practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. He leads the Methodology and Practice team in supporting member development of programming, exhibitions, and engagement strategies that address their communities’ most pressing challenges. Braden has personally trained hundreds of organizations in dialogue, community engagement, planning, and operating at the intersection of history and justice. Before joining ICSC, Braden worked with the National Park Service at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site where he oversaw public, education, and professional development programs and in exhibits at Old Sturbridge Village.
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