The Notebook
Chidinma Dureke, Community Vitality, 2023
Oil, colored pencil, pastel, and gold leaf on paper 14 x 15.5 in.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Notebook,
a collection of art, scholarship, opinion, and insight presented to you as variations on a theme of community vitality.
Community vitality is the holistic state of well-being, including the economic strength, social cohesion, and public safety that impacts both individuals and the collective. This concept serves as the bedrock for fostering a just society in which the strength of communities directly correlates with their safety, health, and prosperity. In the simplest terms, strong communities are safe communities.
The Notebook was created to hold a divergent space in a traditional world, existing somewhere between an academic journal and a popular magazine.
The Notebook - Full PDF
Variations on a Theme - Caroline Nobo
About Empirical Poetry - Monica Bell
What It Meant to Love My Son - Monica Bell
Creating and Excavating Hope on The Inside and Out - Miriam Gohara and Richard Morales
Felony Finance - Neil Gallagher
An Organizational Change Approach to Reducing Violence - Alina Bitran, Rodrigo Canales, and Vaughn Crandall
Checkerboard #4 - Matt Katsaros
Communicating Injustice to the Outside World - Beth Parker
Selective Hearing - Elizabeth Hinton and Vesla Weaver
Nothing About Us Without Us: Reflections from Community Researchers - Stephane D. Andrade and Jania Stewart-James
Fair Chance Hiring at Yale - Molly Aunger, Nadine Horton, and Johanna Elumn
Optical Illusions - Dana Greene
Seven Myths About the Adolescent Brain - BJ Casey
A Restorative Pathway to Decarceration and Abolition - Catherine Besteman and Leo Hylton
Is Justice Happening Here? - Emily LaGratta
We are all Tech Builders - Sudhir Venkatesh
The Failures of Cash Bail - Caroline S. Beit, Alexandra A. Halberstam, Kathryn A. Thomas
Dirty House - Monica Bell
Glossary - Jessica Pardim Araujo and Michael Bochkur Dratver