NARJ Leadership

We are a team that is creating bridges to restore stability and peace when violence and harm occur in our community. 

Jeremy J Hawkes
Executive Director

Jeremy Hawkes joined our organization in January of 2022. He comes to NARJ with a passion to see restorative justice as a healthy functional process to resolve the harm inflicted in our community. From a distant past, Jeremy has experienced first hand the punitive response to disobedience from our justice system. The experience was difficult to navigate, faced with unwarranted consequences and immeasurable challenge to recover. With some luck, he was able to find the support and community to take advantage of opportunities that was not easily attainable. Today, Jeremy has over 20 years in the film industry and will focus his skills, talent, creativity and education toward restorative justice within our community. 


​Board of Directors



Jo Stone
President

Jo Stone, MFT, PhD started working in private practice in 1980 in California and moved her practice to Sedona in 1989. It has always been her goal to help guide individuals, couples and families through challenging life transitions by enriching their communication skills, teaching tools for a positive life view and a general healthy approach to living. This has included running a senior women’s group for four years, counseling families dealing with life threatening illness, working with at-risk teens and their families as well as women in transition.  Giving back has always been of great import to Jo.  She served on the Board of Make-A-Wish of Northern Arizona for 13 years, Sedona Godmothers for three years, has been a facilitator with Restorative Justice for the last 10 years and joined the board in 2014.


Barry Maketansky
Board Advisory

Actively involved in the non-profit community across the Verde Valley, Barry is a founding member our board of directors since October of 2014. He has been a Lead Facilitator for eight years, embracing the Restorative Justice Model. Barry is currently employed by the Verde Valley Sanctuary and is an
advisor to their board. Raised in New Jersey, he did undergraduate work at Michigan State University and has gone on to continue his graduate studies in the areas of non-profit and philanthropy. Much of Barry’s work has included the defense of endangered species against extinction, Special Expedition
Cruises in the Amazon and varied ecological studies for National Geographic in Mexico and Central America. Barry’s interests include the environment, animal welfare and theater.
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Paul Friedman
Board Member
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Paul Friedman, Ph.D. moved to Sedona in 2005, after serving for 35 years on the Communication and Human Relations faculty at the University of Kansas.  He has been active here in volunteer activities that bring good will and understanding to local residents.  Examples include teaching a wide range of classes year-round at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), coordinating a Sedona Community Mediation program hosted by the Sedona City Manager, leading weekly discussion programs for inmates over two years at the Yavapai County Detention Center in Camp Verde, and being a Restorative Justice facilitator.  In 2020 he was named the Spirit of Sedona Collaborator of the Year by the Arizona Community Foundation. He and his wife, Tanya Mayer, have been married for 22 years and together have six children and 13 grandchildren.  


​Mark Crounse
​Board Member
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Mark Crounse graduated early from the school of life’s hardest lessons, with a Phd in overcoming significant challenges:
Parental divorce and suicide, financial hardships, bullying and addiction. All before the age of 19. At age 20, he started and still owns, a successful business decades later. A NARJ board member, as well as a member of JCAB Albany County N.Y.
He also volunteers working with at risk youth and people with disabilities.






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