Student Profile

Amy Levad

Course of Study:

Ethics and Society

Year of Entry:

2004.0

Areas of Focus:

Criminal justice reform
Restorative justice and conflict transformation
Virtue ethics
Feminist ethics
Catholic social teaching

Practices Concentration:

Core Seminar Paper: Building God¿¿¿s Nation: Court Watching as a Theological and Civic Practice of Higher Power Church

Experiential Requirement: The Moral Imagination of Restorative Justice

Dissertation:

Title: The Moral Imagination of Restorative Justice

Biography

A native of Colorado, Levad earned her BA in mathematics and religious studies with honors from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. After graduation, she served a year with the Loretto Volunteer Corps and worked with The Empowerment Program as a case manager for women arrested for prostitution in Denver, CO. Levad then entered Candler School of Theology at Emory University and earned her MTS before beginning the doctoral program in the Graduate Division of Religion. She is now completing her dissertation while also working as an editor for Practical Matters and as the academic coordinator for a program funded by that Atlanta Theological Association that offers a certificate in theological studies for women in Metro State Prison.