About
Restorative Research Consulting collaborates with community-based organizations to facilitate research initiatives that center the needs and desired outcomes of system-impacted people. At RRC, we customize a research plan that fits the goals of your organization and your community. We are especially invested in working closely with change makers committed to reforming the criminal legal system through restorative solutions to societal needs.
Mission
To demonstrate the power of rehabilitation, reform, and coalition building by centering the voices of system-impacted communities in research that affects them.
To use research to do good through advocacy for progressive criminal legal policy reform.
Vision
We imagine a world where community support and rehabilitation are the status quo of our peacemaking, not the exceptions.
About the Founder/Director
Gabriella Licata is an educator, researcher, and community advocate who has worked on social justice-centered research projects that prioritize participatory action and emancipatory research approaches. She is a researcher at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center through Mount Tamalpais College (MTC) and Director of Research at San Quentin SkunkWorks.
Gabriella earned a PhD in sociolinguistics at UC Berkeley in 2023, where she worked on a variety of projects spanning linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Her goals are to provide grass-roots and community organizations with research opportunities to empirically demonstrate the effects of their programs.
