Monthly Featured Organizations & Programs

Each month, G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice features various advocacy organizations, justice programs, community events, and leaders that are making a significant impact on the pursuit of justice worldwide. Check out the Features for this month:

Featured advocacy Organization:

The sentencing project

The Sentencing Project advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice. The Sentencing Project brings unique value as a bridge organization, uniting work on the ground with overarching policy changes at the national level. They currently partner with 87 national groups and over 320 state-level organizations who are working together to advance extreme sentencing, voting rights, and youth justice reforms. In all of these partnerships, they are committed to centering the voices, experiences, and leadership of directly impacted individuals and communities, and use their direction to inform and tailor our support strategies for each collaboration.

Featured ArtS:

2025 Art In The Park Loveland

2025 Art in the Park, Loveland is celebrating its 58th annual festival. It is recognized as a leading show in the industry and a large part of the cultural fabric of the vibrant Loveland art scene. They participate every year in THE WEEKEND OF ART, along with the internationally acclaimed Sculpture in the Park. They invite you to apply to be one of the 250 exhibitors at the 2025 event, a world-class celebration of the visual arts. The goal is to provide our exhibitors and our patrons with an experience of unparalleled quality and excellence. Highlights of this year's show are The Gallery of FINE ARTISANS and The Market of FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS.

Art in the Park, Loveland is a nonprofit organization, supported by the Thompson Valley Art League (TVAL). They believe the access to art for everyone and artists are essential to their success. They support artists and art education through TVAL in Loveland.

August 9 and 10, 2025
North Lake Park
Loveland, Colorado
Saturday 10 am-5pm ~ Sunday 10 am-4pm

Featured Education Program:

START at the University of Maryland

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), based at the University of Maryland, is a research and education center dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of terrorism, political violence, and their societal impacts. Established as a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, START uses empirical data and multidisciplinary research to inform policy and practice. It also supports education through academic programs, training, and internships, while providing accessible data tools and publications to researchers, practitioners, and the public.

Featured Publication:

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez

A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.

Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us, Indigenous science has long been ignored, otherized, or perceived as "soft"--the product of a systematic, centuries-long campaign of racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, and delegitimization.

Here, Jessica Hernandez--Maya Ch'orti' and Zapotec environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Piña Soul--introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vision of land stewardship that heals rather than displaces, that generates rather than destroys. She breaks down the failures of western-defined conservatism and shares alternatives, citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle; her family's fight against ecoterrorism in Latin America; and holistic land management approaches of Indigenous groups across the continent.

Through case studies, historical overviews, and stories that center the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous Latin American women and land protectors, Hernandez makes the case that if we're to recover the health of our planet--for everyone--we need to stop the eco-colonialism ravaging Indigenous lands and restore our relationship with Earth to one of harmony and respect.