The Circle Keepers is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization. They dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by training youth organizers as restorative justice practitioners, participatory action researchers and socially conscious activists. By centering the lived experiences of youth leaders, and promoting peacemaking through cultural and educational community organizing that heal the harms of racial segregation in schools.

Arts Programming, Community Building & Education-

The Circle Keepers’ Sounds of Justice & Joy is a healing centered, trauma informed and culturally sustaining pedagogies based activist music education program that  provides middle & high school students with opportunities to:

Listen to, research & analyze music about themes of identity, peace, justice, safety, belonging, mental health, and social justice, among other topics 

Explore music making through a variety of different musical styles and genres, choosing their preferred instruments such as guitars, drums, keyboards, etc, as well as singing, 

Compose original songs that tell their own stories as a way to make their voices heard. 

Curate, Organize & Present socially conscious musical performances for their communities in efforts to engage community members and stakeholders in a process of transformation. 

They stand affirmed in the words of Toni Cade Bambara, that: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible!”