Social Justice Camp DC began Friday with a evening of 5-minute Pecha-Kucha presentations, all focusing on Social Justice.  Speakers were brilliant, passionate advocates that discussed issues ranging from saving DC social programs from budget cuts to Regina Holliday's medical advocacy murals, created to promote patient's rights.  The inspiring civil and human rights work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was mentioned often, including in my own presentation.

My talk chronicled my experience looking for a definition of Social Justice.  After the usual Internet sources failed, I turned to an unlikely method: translate Social Justice into Japanese characters and then analyze those characters as if they were telling a story.

The results were surprising (and a bit funny), but eventually lead me to my own definition of Social Justice.

@cindythroop shot video from the front row.

I took the audio from her recording and created a video the shows only the slides.

Interestingly, I did some of the development of this idea on my $20 wall-sized whiteboard.

Fascinated by this process, I'm working a new Found in Translation.