Institute faculty and All Stars Project co-founder Dr. Lenora Fulani is featured on this John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY-Television series, Criminal Justice Matters. In this 15-minute interview, titled “Bridging the Divide: Cops and Kids and Reflections on Justice,” host Stephen Handelman speaks with Fulani about the award-winning police-community relations program she directs, Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids.
Stay tuned: More coming on Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids from Lois Holzman with the of the second edition (in press) of Vygotsky at Work and Play. Holzman dedicates a chapter to Cops & Kids — using a Vygotskian lens to introduce the program as a culture-creating performance that’s transformative of the intensely conflict-ridden relationship between police officers and young people of color.