Working with schools throughout the State of California, Noël facilitates dialogues and trains school administrators and staff to develop restorative disciplinary responses, building a culture of healthy youth and adult relationships of mutual responsibility and repair. When needing a restorative dialogue, Noël facilitated community dialogue for the Sudanese Association of Northern California as an example of his work also with community organizations. For five years, Noël's been a regular participant in the San Quentin State Prison’s Interfaith Restorative Justice Symposia out of which he became a volunteer chaplain for the men-in-blue in general population and on death row who worship Ifá/Òrìsà, the indigenous tradition of the Yorùbá of whom Noël is an initiated babaláwo in the Ijèbú-Rémo area of Nigeria. His book, Reciting Ifá: Difference, Heterogeneity and Identity is published by Africa World Press. Noël received his Doctorate from the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK and his Master's in Anthropology from Cal State, Hayward. Noël is currently co-directing a documentary film on the origin and perpetuation of racial construction and violence in the United States.

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Noël Amherd is a VOD facilitator with the Ahimsa Collective.