Healing after a homicide with Valerie Dixon

Dr. Toy welcomes back her close friend, activist, and Center for Victims director Valerie Dixon. Valerie shares the tragic 2001 shooting death of her only son, Robbie, a collegiate football superstar on the cusp of an NFL tryout. Valerie maps out how she channeled her overwhelming grief into launching the PACT Initiative (Prevent Another Crime Today), using unresolved homicide billboard campaigns. She demonstrates the Japanese art of Kintsugi—mending broken pottery with golden glue—as a safe, visual tool to celebrate personal structural scars.