The TTP Global Wisdom Council is a small, invitation-based circle that helps ground our work in relationship, cultural awareness, and intergenerational perspective.
It is not a governing body. It is not a board.
It is a space for reflection, witnessing, and guidance as TTP Global grows.
Restorative practices do not come from nowhere.
They are rooted in Indigenous traditions, community-based ways of being, and long-standing cultural practices centered on relationship, accountability, and repair.
As TTP Global expands — particularly across regions and communities — we believe it is essential to stay grounded in those roots, not just in theory, but in how we move.
The Wisdom Council exists to help us:
Remain connected to the broader lineage of restorative work
Think ecologically — not just about individuals, but about systems and relationships
Stay accountable to intention, not just outcomes
Center intergenerational perspective, including the presence and voice of younger people
Build a global community that reflects the diversity of the work itself
Maricela brings a deep commitment to community-based restorative practice, with particular experience working alongside Transitional Age Youth, Indigenous communities, and system-impacted young people and families. She has been a deeply supportive presence in this work since its earliest chapter, when TTP Global began as The Town Project.
She holds a Master’s in Organization & Leadership from the University of San Francisco, where she is currently pursuing her Ed.D. She is also a trained GONA (Gathering of Native Americans) Facilitator and Nonviolent Communication practitioner. Her professional experience spans K–12 and higher education, nonprofit youth work, and tribal organizations.
As an Indigenous woman and Danzante Azteca, Maricela carries traditional knowledge as the fifth in her lineage to do so. She brings to TTP Global’s Wisdom Council a perspective grounded in culture, community, relationship, and the belief that restorative practice can create meaningful conditions for healing, connection, and belonging.
Guadalupe is a spiritual guide, healer, ceremonial leader, and guardian of ancestral wisdom. She supports women in releasing intergenerational trauma and reconnecting with their inner power through sacred movement, ceremony, and energetic alignment. Her life’s work centers spiritual healing, rediscovery, and living in relationship with the energy that flows through all creation.
A Moon Dancer for nearly 14 years, Guadalupe has participated in ceremonies in Mexico and worked closely with elders to learn traditional healing practices within her Mexica lineage. For nearly a decade, she has also supported the Hollister community through traditional Temazcal and Sealing ceremonies, spiritual workshops, and Kinam—Toltec postures of power.
Guadalupe’s relationship with Dr. Sherry has also shaped the evolution of TTP Global. Through their conversations, ceremony, and shared learning, Guadalupe encouraged Dr. Sherry to more explicitly name and honor the Indigenous origins of restorative practices and to approach this work with greater reverence for the traditions from which it comes.
As a member of TTP Global’s Wisdom Council, Guadalupe brings ancestral knowledge, spiritual grounding, and a reminder that restoration is not only about responding to harm—it is also about relationship, responsibility, and our connection to something larger than ourselves.
Rebecca (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and social theorist whose work explores memory, resistance, trauma, and liberation across communities and generations. Born and raised in Oakland, her interest in revolutionary movements grew from studying the Black Panther Party and recognizing parallels with the revolutionary history of her Tamil people.
Her book, My Pen is Sharp Like the Gun in My Hand: On the Revolutionary Feminism of the Tamil Tigers, brings together oral history, photography, and political theory to explore women fighters and revolutionary feminism. Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in Human Rights Law from SOAS University of London.
As a member of TTP Global’s Wisdom Council, Rebecca brings an important younger-generation voice alongside her perspective as an artist, scholar, and Oakland native. Dr. Sherry has known Rebecca since she was young and values the critical, creative, and globally minded perspective she has developed. Her presence reflects TTP Global’s belief that wisdom is created across generations—through memory, questioning, imagination, and the ongoing work of building more just and restorative futures.
Talia (they/she) is a Black queer nonbinary restorative justice practitioner based in Oakland, California. Since 2018, they have supported communities through restorative justice facilitation, mediation, education, and conflict intervention, with a particular commitment to helping communities develop the communication and relationship-repair skills necessary for collective resilience and transformation.
Talia’s practice has evolved from educating incarcerated students through the NJSTEP degree program to developing and leading conflict resolution programs with SEEDS Community Resolution Center. Their current work integrates restorative practice with nature, folk art, grounding, and regulation, creating spaces where people can approach conflict with greater integrity, connection, and care. Talia is a native Chicagoan and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Hampton University.
As both a TTP Global practitioner and a member of the Wisdom Council, Talia brings the perspective of someone actively carrying restorative practice into communities today. Their creativity, commitment to healthy conflict, and understanding of restoration as both relational and embodied help keep TTP Global’s work connected to what practitioners and communities actually need. Their presence on the Council also strengthens its intergenerational perspective, ensuring that those helping shape the future of restorative practice have a voice in shaping TTP Global itself.
Deb Brill (she/her) is an educational leader and mediator with decades of experience in public education, conflict resolution, equity, and organizational development. She currently serves as Executive Director of Student Services for Albany Unified School District, following nine years as principal of Albany Middle School, where she led a schoolwide shift toward restorative practices. Her career has also included work as a Safe and Inclusive Schools Coordinator, classroom teacher, and director of after-school and summer programs.
Deb holds two mediation certifications and has mediated conflicts in a range of settings. She has volunteered with the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, facilitating conversations between young people who caused harm and those impacted, and has supported crisis response in battered women’s shelters. She also co-founded ASC (Aware Seek Communicate), a training and consulting practice focused on intersectional identity, communication, and equity.
As both a TTP Global conflict mediator and a member of the Wisdom Council, Deb brings deep organizational history to this work. She was a founding practitioner with The Town Project and has been part of its evolution into TTP Global, carrying forward the traditions, relationships, and restorative values that shaped the organization from its earliest years. Her experience as an educational leader and mediator adds a strong systems perspective, while her long relationship with this work helps ensure that TTP Global continues to grow without losing connection to the values and practices at its foundation.
Deb Brill brings over two decades of school leadership experience to her restorative practice. She currently serves as Executive Director of Student Services for Albany Unified School District and previously served as principal of Albany Middle School for nine years. As principal, she led a schoolwide shift to restorative practices — embedding the work into the culture of the institution rather than applying it as a program.
Deb holds two mediation certifications and has mediated across a wide range of settings. Her background in organizational development, strategic planning, and equity-focused leadership makes her a powerful partner for schools and organizations navigating complex cultural change.
eveline chang, msw, brings over 30 years of experience designing and facilitating programs rooted in social justice, anti-oppressive practice, community organizing, and community wellness. Their facilitation integrates restorative and transformative practices, cultural humility, emergent strategy, mindfulness, and collective liberation.
eveline is a full-time Continuing Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, teaching graduate courses in multilevel social work practice, anti-oppressive social work, community organizing, and grief, loss, and bereavement. They have also served as a Restorative Practices Trainer with SEEDS Community Resolution Center’s School Services Program.
Their practice recognizes that true social justice must integrate healing justice and structural change — centering the leadership and solutions of communities most directly impacted by systems of oppression.
Robin is an experienced trainer, mediator, and coach whose work brings together conflict resolution, somatic awareness, and the understanding that softness is power. Their background spans gender studies, law, children’s entertainment, and multiple conflict resolution modalities.
As co-founder of Moksha Healing Collaborative, Robin brings a somatic lens to conflict work — getting at the root of what activates us through a gentle, purpose-driven approach. Their practice centers emotional intelligence, play, and creativity as pathways to agency and collective liberation.
Robin is queer, neurodivergent, and nonbinary, and brings humility and lived experience to the complexities of identity, intersectionality, and healing across difference.
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