Check-in and enjoy a delicious breakfast while getting to know your peers!

If you’ve never been to The California Endowment, it is a beautiful campus where you’ll start your day in an inspiring setting!

Download a map here.

Welcome! The emcee will open with a grounding exercise and an icebreaker to bring us into the space together.

This is your moment to meet other high schools peacemakers from across Los Angeles County.

Form new connections and get ready for a day built around curiosity, creativity and community.

Peer mediation is a powerful tool for peacemaking that you can use to create a new way of dealing with conflict and behavior at your school. A skilled peer mediator helps their fellow students ease tensions, find new solutions, resolve fights and so much more.

Whether you are a seasoned peer mediator or new to it all, you’ll get key mediation tips and tricks from WJC.

Plus, you’ll get a chance to practice mediation with real time coaching from professionals, who will be there to support you and share how mediation has helped them in their lives and careers.

Educators and other adult attendees are encouraged to watch & learn!

Lunch is an opportunity to hang out with new friends, make memories and capture fun pictures in our photo booth!

Designed for educators, school staff and administrators, this session brings together Elissa Barrett, Executive Director of the Western Justice Center, and leaders from our district partnerships for a grounded conversation about how schools navigate crisis and come out stronger. Panelists will explore how Conflict Resolution Education and restorative practices guide students and staff through moments of disruption, helping communities regain stability and trust.

Participants will hear how data from Cal Poly Pomona reflects significant gains in academic performance, school climate and student belonging. Panelists will share stories of young people creating solutions, the use of restorative tools and schools building community through practice.

This panel offers practical insight for school leaders who want to strengthen their ability to respond to crisis while centering relationships, youth voice and the power of community.

Check back in December 2025 for panelist updates.

Your social media feed can be more than photos and memes. It can be a megaphone. Step into a workshop that shows how young people can turn everyday posts into calls for justice. You will explore how to build community, develop narratives, and amplify voices that need to be heard.

Learn how social media can become a tool for healing, belonging, and real-world change.

Co-facilitated by Farrah Fazal, an Emmy winning journalist who uses storytelling to amplify unheard voices, and youth leader Alan Ramirez, member of the Azusa High School Student Union.

About the Roundtable: Mediators are everywhere: tech, arts, law, social justice, business, engineering, and more. Meet professionals who use peacebuilding skills in their careers and hear real stories about how conflict resolution opened unexpected doors in their lives.

See how your mediation skills today can shape the path you take tomorrow.

Check back in December 2025 for updates.

When students, parents and community organize, schools change. This workshop explores Community Coalition’s School Climate Campaign and the ways young people led the charge to reshape discipline, safety, and belonging across LAUSD schools with largely Black and Brown populations.

Through real stories from South LA, discover how collective action moves policy, strengthens communities, and gives young people the tools to lead lasting transformation.

Facilitated by Christian Flagg and Community Coalition, an organization that mobilizes youth to transform school climate

Your story is a seed. When you speak it out loud, it grows. In this workshop you will turn your lived experiences into poetry and spoken-word that can shift perspectives and build empathy. You will explore how rhythm, honesty and courage help mediators connect with others in moments of conflict.

This is a space to play with language, find your voice and create poetry that inspires your school to choose understanding over harm.

Movements for justice have been shaped by people who chose peace even in the face of hate and discrimination. Led by Rev. Dr. Rob Muthiah, this workshop dives into real moments in history when nonviolent action was used as a tool for social change.

Learn how courage, discipline, and compassion help communities stand up for what is just and true without causing harm. Discover where your own voice fits into the legacy of nonviolence.

Co-facilitated by Rev. Dr. Rob Muthiah, an educator and advocate who teaches the power of nonviolent action, and a Student Leader.

Your identity holds power. Your community does too. This workshop invites you to use visual art to explore the stories that shape you. You will see how this form of expression can open conversations that bridge differences and support conflict resolution.

By creating images that reflect your truth you learn how art can be a tool for belonging and a spark for action that brings people together.

Facilitated by Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, a creative community that uplifts young artists through media and cultural storytelling