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Aug 10, 2015 · How We Got Here. In 2010, Avis Ridley-Thomas, founder of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Dispute Resolution Program, and Buzz Wilms, UCLA Professor of Education, founded the Institute for Nonviolence in Los Angeles. The Institute provides a year-round series of undergraduate courses called “Restoring Civility: Understanding, Using, and ...
Oct 2, 2023 · Avis Ridley-Thomas has served as Executive Director of Days of Dialogue since 2011 and explained how this year’s luncheon will help Los Angeles move forward as a city given its systemic racial issues surrounding bigotry and homelessness.
Mar 23, 2023 · By Matt Hamilton Staff Writer. March 22, 2023 6:48 PM PT. Lawyers for suspended City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas concluded their defense on Wednesday, and although the veteran politician...
Oct 14, 2021 · Oct. 14, 2021 4:27 PM PT. If you’re wandering Los Angeles County, you might encounter the name “Mark Ridley-Thomas” on a pedestrian bridge spanning La Cienega Boulevard. His name has also...
Avis Ridley-Thomas||no_popup [/img]For three hours this evening and three more on Saturday morning in South Los Angeles, the perhaps most talented member of the Ridley-Thomas family will lead community mood-calming sessions following two recent police shootings of black men, here and in Ferguson. Days of Dialogue is the program.
Avis Ridley-Thomas founded Los Angeles City Attorney’s Dispute Resolution Program in 1989, and served as Director until retiring in March 2011. Under her leadership, the program grew from four staff members to include ov...
A life-long resident of Los Angeles, Mark Ridley-Thomas, also known as MRT, is widely regarded as one of the region’s most creative, effective and progressive voices for change in Los Angeles. In November 2020, he was elected to serve as Councilmember for the Tenth Council District of the City of Los Angeles.
