Morningside Campus/Limited Access

Effective immediately, access to the Morningside campus has been limited to Morningside faculty, students residing in residential buildings on campus (Carman, Furnald, John Jay, Hartley, Wallach, East Campus, and Wien), and employees who provide essential services to campus buildings, labs and residential student life (for example, Dining, Public Safety, and building maintenance staff) Read more. Read More.

Sethu Laxmi Nair

Lecturer, Columbia School of Social Work

Sethu Laxmi Nair is a Mediator, Facilitator, Coach and Trainer in the Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Practices fields.

Through her work, Sethu improves interpersonal and social dynamics by enhancing leadership capacity and conflict competence among leaders and groups. Currently, she serves as Senior Conflict Resolution Specialist at the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution within New York City government. A member of Hidden Water, Sethu facilitates restorative circles to heal the impact of child sexual abuse in the family system. She also offers a foundational Restorative Practices training called: “Responding Restoratively” through the Center for Justice at Columbia. Through her private practice, Sethu consults with organizations offering a unique blend of leadership coaching and restorative conflict management.

Sethu has also worked with various human rights organizations in New York and India. Sethu is graduate of SUNY Purchase and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.