About Us
JSA specializes in designing and implementing large and small group multi-stakeholder agenda setting and decision-making processes. Our niche focuses on using alternative dispute and conflict resolution techniques (fact-finding, facilitation, mediation, negotiation, consensus building, etc.) in public policy, civic engagement and organizational development processes related to achieving sustainable community development, environmental justice and smart growth.
In the Washington metropolitan region and throughout the United States, JSA has successfully helped implement numerous community visioning, waterfront, community redevelopment and transportation projects.
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Our impartial professionals design and implement:
- Community Development Mediation
- Civic Engagement
- Public Policy Development Consensus Building
- Strategic Organizational Consultation
OUR VISION
We envision the creation of technologically smart, culturally competent, environmentally secure, economically just, moral, humane “beloved communities” across the world.
OUR MISSION
In support of that vision, our mission is to help community and neighborhood residents, government agencies and developers reach just and sustainable agreements about land uses.
JSA’s unique niche focuses on using alternative dispute resolution techniques in public policy, civic engagement and organizational development processes related to achieving sustainable community development, environmental justice and smart growth.
Latest News
JSA Helps Increase Civic Trust with Hybrid Virtual/In-Person Summit on Racial Equity
In West Palm Beach, Florida, 379 people came together to build racial equity. The Action Summit of the Mayor’s Taskforce for Racial and Ethnic Equality was held via Zoom, with six additional in-person satellite locations across the city. As a consultant to the City of West Palm Beach, Justice & Sustainability Associates organized, produced, and facilitated this convening.
How Land Use Policies Impact Housing Opportunity Across the District
On Saturday, December 7, 2019, the DC Office of Planning (OP) and the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will host experts to discuss how historic federal and local exclusionary and racially discriminatory land use policies created housing segregation and shaped opportunity across the District.
Community leaders to discuss the future of Georgia Avenue NW
JSA's work with community leaders to discuss the future of Georgia Avenue NW in the DC area was recently highlighted in an article in DC Curbed Newsletter. Residents, civic organizations, and small businesses along [...]
