Susan Brooks has three decades of experience as an educator, creative scholar, facilitator, and presenter in the areas of experiential and community-based learning, professional development, and cross-cultural communication. Since 2007 she has been a Professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law in Philadelphia and served as the school’s inaugural Associate Dean for Experiential Learning. She has established numerous university-community collaborations, including co-founding the law school’s Stern Community Lawyering Clinic, which she is currently directing. The clinic provides free legal services to local residents and collaborates with community members and organizations on projects addressing systemic issues. Professor Brooks has devoted much of her scholarship to promoting an integrative, humanistic approach she calls “Relational” and “Wholehearted” Lawyering, which includes tools and practices to support healing, wellbeing and co-liberation. She was awarded a Fulbright Global Research Scholar Fellowship to study culturally sustaining forms of conflict transformation, including restorative justice and facilitated dialogue. She is also a member of the Global Advisory Council for the International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence. Professor Brooks received her J.D. from New York University. She received an M.A. and B.A. in clinical social work from the University of Chicago. She is a licensed attorney, mediator, trained restorative justice facilitator, and also a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher.