The Marilou Allen Office ofService and Community Collaboration

Advancing Real Change, Inc. is a leader in the field of mitigation and seeks to transform the criminal justice system by providing comprehensive and accurate life history investigation to decision-makers in order to inform the fates of individuals facing the most severe penalties.

Haverford students working here have received training that featured speakers on the roots of mitigation, the racial history of the death penalty, race-based trauma, the biological effects of trauma, records collection, interviewing witnesses, restorative justice, working with mental health experts, and more.