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David Ragland is Co-Founder and Co-director for the Truth Telling project of Ferguson and a Visiting Professor at United Nations Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. He researches and thinks about the moral dimensions of violence and trauma against vulnerable populations in the U.S as well as envisioning a world with reduced violence on all levels. Dr. Ragland focuses on how our society conceives justice as retributive and proposes a shift toward restorative justice to transform communities and criminal justice system and take the America's turbulent history and lives experiences into account for policies at all levels. David's recent work includes a chapter titled “Peace Education as an Ethical Framework to Situate Restorative Justice: Locating the Concerns of Communities of Color in Peace and Justice Discourse” in Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation; and forth coming, co-authored book chapter "Truth-telling from the Margins: Exploring Black-led responses to police violence and systemic humiliation". He is on the board of directors for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Peace and Justice Studies Association.