Testimony and advocacy written as nonprofit Policy Manager in Rhode Island.

A lecture for ShavuotLIVE 2023 addressing the importance of harm acknowledgement in moving towards an interfaith approach to community and religion.

A live interview with award-winning author and science writer Jessica Nordell discussing her first book, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science of and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias.

Call to Action: A State-Wide Summit on Addressing Hate was held on May 16th, 2023 at Rhode Island College, bringing together diverse voices and leadership from across Rhode Island dedicated to addressing rising hate in our state and beyond.

Over our three weeks together, Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery will guide interactive conversations that acknowledge and processes past harms done by religious institutions toward interfaith partnerships and families. From there, the class will share our visions for a better future. And every step of the way, we will explore the roles that each one of us can play in crafting that future, together.

“Internal reporting mechanisms have failed them, public efforts by the commission have only exacerbated the violence they experience, and establishing grounds for a civil suit against the prison can feel like a shout into the void.”

— Special Feature, Dig Boston

“In truth, many of the ‘re-’s that have buoyed a public discourse scrambling to respond to a nation in crisis—‘reevaluating,’ ‘recommitting,’ and most notably ‘reallocating’—assume that we have adequately engaged in this work before.”

— Buoyed By Billions, Boston Hassle

“Even the best of efforts can’t help but fall short within a rigged system. What this process has shown, time and again, is that we cannot expect justice from a system that reroutes accountability through the use of taxpayer dollars.”

— Not Reform, Receipts, Boston Hassle

“While the transition from prison to the outside world is an adjustment for anyone, their releases have afforded them a new level of liberation. ‘I had a really rough bid living as a woman in a prison with a thousand men,’ Isabel says matter-of-factly. ‘That’s really hard to do.’”

— Dismantling a Black & White Narrative, Boston Hassle

“Fahandej’s work also shows how the compound effects of systemic racism, incarceration, and poverty radiate outwards from the most specific and special of bedtime rituals between father and child.”

— Review, Boston Hassle