Experience

International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director of Collective Impact

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Keith Hickman is the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Executive Director of Collective Impact. In this role, he works with partner organizations, both domestically and globally, to pursue the IIRP mission of positively impacting social health.Keith builds alliances with state education departments and national collaboratives. He served as an advisor to the Maryland Commission on the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Restorative Practices, is a partner scholar on the CASEL Equity Work Group, and is a member of the Research Development and Design Team for the California Safe, Healthy, Responsive Schools Network.He has worked with school districts and community-based agencies to develop large-scale programs in the cities of Chicago, Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Washington, D.C., and Louisville, the Republic of Jamaica, including Kingston, and parishes across Louisiana. He has worked extensively with stakeholder organizations in Detroit, including schools, police, human services, court systems, corrections and neighborhood associations, to support an aligned approach that will positively impact children and families throughout the city.Keith has served in high-level leadership positions for various K-12 educational organizations including the New York City Department of Education and New Leaders for New Schools. In 2000, he helped found the Youth Justice Project at the Harlem Community Justice Center, one of four community justice centers under the Center of Court Innovation, which inspired other restorative justice programs in the Bronx, mid-town Manhattan and Red Hook, Brooklyn. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology of Human Development from Antioch College.

• Director of Continuing Education

  • Sep 2009 - Jul 2020

  The International Institute for Restorative Practices Graduate School (IIRP) is a private standalone accredited graduate school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (More information about the Bethlehem campus here.)Though our network is global, our Bethlehem campus is the IIRP's international and intellectual hub. While the IIRP is a relatively new graduate school, the organization itself has for some time been an integral part of a large worldwide movement of scholars, policy-makers and practitioners advancing the fields of restorative justice and, more broadly, restorative practices.



Common Cents

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Director

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2014