Panelists

Lukayo Estrella

A spirit clown from the Bikol diaspora, Lukayo is based on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Anishinaabe (Algonquin), in so-called Ottawa, Canada. They’ve written, performed, and shared lessons on topics ranging from transformative justice, anti-oppression, poetry, zines, trauma-informed care, spirituality, and the spirit world.

As an educator, they have taught in classrooms, boardrooms, living rooms, auditoriums, and open fields, delivering hundreds of presentations in over a decade, while making posters, infographics, and games to facilitate learning.

In all of their work, they are a spirit clown, dedicated to weaving together justice and harmonious spirit-land-human relations through an eternal sense of play. Check out Lukayo.com to know more.

Jeff Richstone

Jeff retired from working as a lawyer in the federal government and is now happy doing volunteer work for arts and cultural organizations, and other activities that interest him.

Jeff’s practice in the federal government covered many areas of the law, and included a ten-year period working as legal counsel for the Department of Canadian Heritage. He was involved in broadcasting and copyright reform, assisting on grants and contributions to arts and heritage organizations, and working on international legal issues involving the arts and culture. Prior to that he worked as legal counsel for the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (now Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami), and was involved in the negotiations with federal, provincial, and territorial governments on constitutional rights for Canada’s indigenous peoples.

When Jeff first became a lawyer, he worked in law firms in Montreal that specialized in cultural work, including movie and film production and copyright and broadcasting law. He also worked on civil rights cases involving gay and lesbian people, including the landmark Truxx case.

Jeffrey Bradley

Jeffrey Bradley (he/him) is a community organizer and criminology professor at Carleton University and uOttawa. His PhD thesis explored the experiences of people engaged in a transformative justice process for incidents of sexual violence. Jeff has experience working with survivors of violence through Ottawa Victim Services and the National Office for Victims and criminalized people through the Millhaven Lifers’ Liaison Group, Books 2 Prisoners Ottawa, and the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, and the Ottawa Transformative Justice Collective. He started the Transformative Justice Training School in 2023 with OPIRG Ottawa’s support and continues to grow through collective community actions. Jeff is passionate about abolitionist alternatives to the carceral state, violence prevention, and human rights.