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Celeste Lebak is the founder and chief unlearning officer of the Restorative Justice Institute of Oklahoma, where she works to transform how communities respond to harm, conflict, and historical trauma. Central to her work is the practice of remembrance: helping individuals and communities stay in honest relationship with their histories, including those shaped by racial violence, displacement, and erasure. She understands repair as inseparable from remembering, and accountability as requiring truth-telling across generations. Lebak’s approach emphasizes imagination, relational responsibility, and the slow, necessary work of unlearning as essential to healing communities from the ground up.