Stoneleigh Fellow Danielle Sered and her organization, Common Justice, are one of the five recipients of the Brooklyn Community Foundation’s 2017 Spark Prize. Each recipient receives $100,000 in general operating support from the Foundation, which selected Common Justice as a winner from a pool of over 150 applicants and 20 finalists.
Common Justice accepts this award as the world’s first restorative justice program for violent crime, founded by Danielle Sered in 2008 just before the start of her Stoneleigh Fellowship. Her Fellowship expanded the limited scope of Common Justice to more serious, violent crimes and crimes involving young adults, and she made Common Justice one of the first programs to reside primarily in a community of color and have widespread support from the local government.
