About Lyra D. Monroe, President, Restorative Jusice Resources

Lyra D. Monroe, MPA

Lyra D. Monroe, MPA, is the President of Restorative Justice Resources. She has almost 20 years of experience working with victims, offenders and families of severe violence and is fluent in Spanish. RJR is dedicated to supporting communities and individuals (including victims and offenders) to integrate restorative justice into their communities and lives. Lyra has worked in the corporate business and non-profit environment for many years as well as having extensive experience working in the field of criminal justice. Lyra Monroe is a trained Victim Liaison in capital murder cases. She is a certified mediator and the former director of a community mediation center. Lyra has been trained as a Victim Offender Mediator in crimes of severe violence by David Doerfler, and received the victim liaison training at Eastern Mennonite University taught by Howard Zehr and his associates.

Lyra has spent extensive time in Mexico and worked closely with the Human Rights Commission of Queretaro, Mexico. Lyra has trained professionals in victim-offender dialogue and about working with survivors and offenders of severe crimes. She has provided trainings to professionals in Argentina and Mexico. She conducts restorative justice workshops in California prisons and has conducted a similar workshop in a prison in Hermosillo Mexico. She has facilitated programs at Chuckawalla Prison in an effort to decrease inmate violence. She co-facilitated a Victim Offender Education Group at San Quentin Prison and continues to do so at other California prisons.