The Living Justice Project

What does it mean to live your values—through conversation, reflection, and shared experience—not just in theory, but in everyday life? This talk explores the Living Justice Project (2020–2022), a global, collaborative ethnography that followed over 50 students, teachers, and practitioners as they explored what it means to live with purpose, integrity, and connection in challenging times.

Through intimate conversations and multimedia “time capsules”—including photos, videos, audio, and written reflections—collaborators responded to daily prompts, creating a rich, real-time archive of lived experience across continents. This Discourse offers both a wide-angle view of the project and a deep dive into how participants used language, memory, and the body to make sense of their pasts, engage the present, and imagine emotionally and morally charged futures. It’s a portrait of justice not as an abstract goal, but as something lived, shared, and constantly unfolding.

Sonya E. Pritzker, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department…