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Southeast High School addressing racial tension, other conflicts through peer mediation
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IMPROVING SCHOOL CULTURE
Southeast High School addressing racial tension, other conflicts through peer mediation
- Margaret Reist
- Dec 9, 2018
- Dec 9, 2018 Updated May 30, 2026
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Sarah Al-Hilfy-Leon (left), a senior at Lincoln Southeast leads a group including fellow senior Nevaeh Madlock (right) in an exercise about basic needs and conflict during a peer mediation group meeting at Lincoln Southeast.
- GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star

Deia Lasu, a senior at Lincoln Southeast High School, wants the world to see, acknowledge and accept her race and culture.
- EMILY BLOBAUM, Journal Star
Clare Nelson (left), Restorative Justice Coordinator at the Mediation Center, leads a group of Lincoln Southeast students in an exercise in peer mediation.
- GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
Lincoln Southeast seniors Finley Peterson (from left) and Eledon Beyene run through an exercise in peer mediation with sophomores Maya Boden and Jennifer Quach during the weekly restorative justice group's training.
- GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
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Deia Lasu felt the culture shift, a slow slide into divisiveness, racial tension bubbling to the surface, overt, offensive comments in the hallways and classrooms and on social media, a fractured political climate seeping into the walls of her school.
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Sarah Al-Hilfy-Leon (left), a senior at Lincoln Southeast leads a group including fellow senior Nevaeh Madlock (right) in an exercise about basic needs and conflict during a peer mediation group meeting at Lincoln Southeast.
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Deia Lasu, a senior at Lincoln Southeast High School, wants the world to see, acknowledge and accept her race and culture.
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Lincoln Southeast seniors Finley Peterson (from left) and Eledon Beyene run through an exercise in peer mediation with sophomores Maya Boden and Jennifer Quach during the weekly restorative justice group's training.
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Lincoln Southeast Principal Brent Toalson
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