Human Rights Education and Transformative Justice Advanced Certificate

The Advanced Certificate Program in Human Rights Education and Transformative Justice is designed for individuals who have earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. The program supports community building within educational organizations, teaches non-punitive conflict resolution skills, addresses school-to-prison pipeline injustices, strengthens democratic values rooted in universal human rights and respect for human dignity and helps identify and correct structural forms of oppression, including racism, sexism and genderism that create division and disadvantages.

Program Benefits Detailed

This Advanced Certificate program offers knowledge and skills to students so that they can begin to immediately apply in their respective places of work to either develop new programs and or to support the more extended development of current programs in both schools and communities.  The Advanced Certificate is based, in part, on the School of Education’s Lehman Urban Transformative Education conceptual framework, whose mission is to facilitate the development of competent, caring and qualified leaders and advocates.