Events

Healing Justice is a national nonprofit organization addressing the individual and collective harm caused by wrongful convictions, through restorative justice and justice reform.

Healing Justice was founded by Jennifer Thompson based on her personal experience as a crime survivor whose case resulted in an exoneration more than a decade after the trial and conviction. Jennifer became a pioneer of restorative justice in these cases through building a close friendship with the innocent man wrongly convicted in her case. They later co-authored the bestselling book, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption. Jennifer went on to create peer support for other crime victims and survivors from similar cases before launching Healing Justice in 2015.

Healing Justice serves all who have been directly harmed in these cases: crime victims, survivors, and their families, as well as the innocent who were wrongly convicted and their families. We also offer programs for others who have been affected by these cases: jurors, judges, police, prosecutors, victim advocates, and other justice and social service providers.

Healing Justice’s work is led by real people with lived experiences, all of whom contribute their own unique perspectives to our goals and programs. Through all of our work we strive to restore the voices of those harmed and provide them with peer support and individual healing. We also strive to build relationships across all stakeholders to create collective healing and prevent future harm.

My name is Jennifer Hocutt. I'm a Professional Development expert and speaker specializing in topics to assist leaders and professionals in achieving success while cultivating development and growth.

I believe that our core values align as I seek to inspire and engage others to take action and pursue their goals thus creating a community of driven leaders.

Eileen Curtis had been writing all her life. In her first career, she served for twenty years as Director of Music and Cultural Affairs for WGMS AM-FM, Washington’s classical music station. As the station’s liaison to Embassy Row, she scripted and produced many cultural documentaries, for which she received a Peabody, along with multiple Gabriel and Armstrong Awards and a Silver Medal for the Arts from the Government of Austria. Her published writings include a cover story for Mid-Atlantic’s Christmas in Washington, a centerfold (shared with Andy Rooney) on Diversions’ Traveling with Children, and her book Chamber Tales: A Memoir of Commerce, Community, and Stunning Forces of Change. Her love of travel is described in her new book, Roam: Mindful Adventuring Across the Globe, which she co-authored with fellow Rotarian Pat Williams. Last year she started her new business, The Forever Gift: My Pen, Your Story, helping people write their life stories. 

Eileen is also the current President of the Great Falls Rotary Club.

The Citizen of the Year Banquet on April 2nd takes the place of the regular morning meeting this week.

Dr. Mary Ann East, Coloratura Soprano and Conductor of the Encore Sentimental Journey Chorus, for people with early stage memory impairment and their care partners.  She is also a performer and teacher and founder of Capital Harmonia.  

Club members and Senior Senior Prom attendees will share memories of this wonderful annual event.  Mary Drum will be providing a slide show of past events.

Don Owens an Richard Ramsford will discuss the club's scrip card program and how it can be beneficial to you, your businesses, and the club?

Business Impact Speaker:  Don Owens

Jaco Stander is the District Governor in South Africa where our latest water and sanitization project is.  He will be joining us electronically to give us an update on how things are going in his country and clubs!

Business Impact Speaker: TBD

Business Impact Speaker:  Judy Redpath