The seminar will bring together Jamil Zainaldin, Emory faculty, and Common Good Atlanta founders Sarah Higinbotham (Oxford College) and Bill Taft, to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on the community, an American penal system that is more focused on retributive justice than restorative justice, and how scholarly learning can take a rigorous and creative approach to reaching nontraditional students.