Wayne State University issued the following announcement on June 11.
Inside her office on the second floor of Wayne State University’s Faculty Administration Building, Barbara L. Jones dabs at the tears streaking down her face and inhales, pausing to reflect on a visitor’s question about the toll that personal tragedy can take on professional drive.
Jones, the community dispute resolution specialist and faculty instructor for Wayne State’s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, has spent a good chunk of her professional career preaching to youth and adults alike about the futility of violence and the value of peaceful problem-solving. From teaching at the center to organizing as the program director for its annual Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, in addition to her year-round collaboration with activist organizations like the Detroit Justice Center, Jones has become a highly visible and critical grassroots liaison between WSU and local efforts to promote community stability and secure social justice for rank-and-file Detroiters.
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Source: Wayne State University
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