We’re honoured to welcome StreetSolid Industries, a Nashville-based non-profit empowering justice-involved youth and adults through trauma-informed, social-emotional and cognitive programmes.

Their keynote will explore how trauma-informed empowerment can serve as resistance and healing in repressive systems, connecting the emotional and psychological impact of exclusion to broader questions of migration, minority rights, and the rule of law.

Drawing on their work with formerly incarcerated youth, StreetSolid highlights how resilience, identity, and emotional literacy can help individuals navigate and challenge systems designed to marginalize. Following the Forum’s first panel on the use of human rights to justify repression, this keynote brings the human experience to the forefront, showing what defending migrant- and minority rights looks like in practice.

Speakers:
• Ron Johnson, Director of Community Outreach and lead youth mentor/ facilitator in StreetSolid’s re-entry and youth justice programmes
• Tay McGee, former COO and lead youth mentor/facilitator, now CEO of Secure Youth Transport
• Vincent Morelli, Executive Director, medical professor, and co-founder of StreetSolid’s Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional-Cognitive (TI-SEC) curriculum

Their collective expertise bridges psychology, community, and justice, offering powerful insights into how inclusion and dignity can be restored from the ground up.