This is week three of our six-week spring fundraiser, and we have passed the half way mark to our goal! We can’t stop now: we need your help to meet our $50,000 goal to give change makers like those pictured here the time and space they need to work on their projects at the Mesa Refuge.

Please help us to support change makers like these who are working as grassroots activists and/or creating the intellectual infrastructure for movements contributing to a more sustainable and just world.

Donations of $125 and above qualify you and a friend to come to our homecoming picnic June 15 as our guests and be entered into a drawing for a complementary DIY retreat.

This week: meet Lara Bazelon.

Lara Bazelon, Langloth Fellow 2017
Author and Law Professor

My work as a law professor, a writer, and an advocate for social justice are inextricably intertwined. My goal is to break down stereotypes and preconceptions about crime, justice, work, love, and family. In the courtroom, in the classroom, and on the page, I ask the hard and occasionally humorous questions about what is right and fair and possible in our lifetime.

My time at the Mesa Refuge gave me the physical and emotional space to finish my book, Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. I will always be grateful for beauty that surrounded me and the time away from the everyday, which allowed me to write and think in peace (read more).

Please help us support change makers like Lara by donating to our Spring 2019 fundraising campaign.