Aaron Bray

Aaron Bray (he/him/homie) is the proud son of Carol Murray and proud native of Dorchester, MA. His mother and his community raised him to live his values. After surviving the school-to-prison pipeline as a product of METCO and Boston Public Schools, Aaron studied Sociology at Brandeis University to prepare for a career as a public defender. Upon graduating from Harvard Law and growing disenchanted with the lack of justice in the criminal legal system, he retired from the courtroom to study restorative practices as a teaching fellow at Georgetown Law. Trained and guided by the wisdom of community elders, Aaron has spent years serving as a restorative justice facilitator, educator and circle keeper for community-based organizations, institutions of higher education and carceral spaces across the country. Aaron currently serves as a lecturer at UCLA and Harvard Graduate School of Education as well as a consultant for the California Conference for Equality & Justice. Having engaged with the criminal legal system as a defendant, a criminal defense attorney and a prison professor, Aaron dreams of making his mother and his community proud by utilizing restorative practices to transform systems of oppression.