2025 SF Peacemaker Awards

Community Boards’ 15th Annual San Francisco Peacemaker Awards ceremony acknowledges, honors, and celebrates the significant contributions of those making San Francisco a city of healthier, more just, and peaceful neighborhoods and communities.

As peacemakers, we understand that to effectively address conflicts and diverse needs, we need to engage in meaningful and courageous connections. These challenging endeavors can involve mediations, facilitated dialogues, public gatherings, conversations, community circles, and community organizing. Our award recipients are leading the way and we are honored to celebrate them. Please join us.

The 2025 award recipients truly reflect the courage, dedication, and commitment needed to engage in these courageous connections.

MEET THE 2025 SAN FRANCISCO PEACEMAKER AWARD RECIPIENTS

Alice Shikina
The Raymond Shonholtz Visionary Peacemaker Award
Alice Shikina is the embodiment of the ‘mediation movement.’ She mentors new mediators, volunteers with many Bay Area mediation programs, leads trainings in negotiation, and devotes her career to mediation. Alice’s path to mediation began when she mediated for families and au pairs to improve their cross-cultural understandings. Motivated by the success of mediation, she went on to volunteer as a Day of Court mediator with Alameda County, mediating hundreds of cases ranging from evictions to small claims. Learn more about Alice.

Ixchel Dorabji-Reyes
The Gail Sadalla Rising Peacemaker Award
Ixchel Dorabji-Reyes is a restorative peer mediator at Balboa High School. Not only has she mediated ten sessions between peers, she also created a new program called the ‘1-On-1 Check-In,’ offering restorative conversations with peers who are identified by teachers as needing an opportunity to reflect on actions and choices, think through the impact on themselves and others, and identify more positive actions to take. Ixchel felt that many students would be more receptive to engaging in reflection and accountability with the support of a peer rather than an adult. This year, Ixchel led restorative check-ins with 15 students and also mentored three students.  Learn more about Ixchel.

Portola Neighborhood Association
The Community Boards Leadership Peacemaker Award
Affectionately referred to as “the little neighborhood that could!” the Portola is one of San Francisco’s “hidden” southeast neighborhoods, tucked between the Excelsior, McLaren Park, and the Bayview Freeway. The neighborhood is part of the working-class rim of the city that once was home to the first wave of Maltese, Italian, and Jewish immigrants and the greenhouses that produced cut flowers for all of San Francisco. Today, it is a bustling multicultural, multilingual neighborhood with San Bruno Avenue as its main corridor. Learn more about Portola Neighborhood Association.

WE THANK OUR 2025 SPONSORS

Leadership Circle
Jeanie Fay-Snow | San Francisco Police Officers Association | Shwiff, Levy & Polo, LLP

Partnership Circle
Insight Counsel LLP | JAMS Foundation | Lemmon Employment Law & Conflict Resolution | Marc Martin | Michael C. Tobriner

Advocacy Circle
Alta Vista School | Anna and Nathan Beach | Anonymous | Anonymous | Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP | Deanna Gildea and Dave Gerheauser | Alice P. Mead | Donald Proby | Christina Sabee | San Francisco Pretrial Diversion Project | The San Francisco School | Debra and Michael Varner | Darlene Weide

SAN FRANCISCO PEACEMAKER AWARDS SPONSORSHIPS

Premier Circle – $10,000
Benefits include:

  • Table seating for 10 in Grand Salon, The City Club of San Francisco
  • 4 seats to any 2025-2026 The Basics of Mediation training (valued at $4,780)
  • Sponsor name on cover and back page of the event program
  • Full page ad in our electronic event program
  • Acknowledgements on website and social media
  • Acknowledgement by the Master of Ceremony

Championship Circle – $5,000
Benefits include:

  • Table seating for 8 in Grand Salon, The City Club of San Francisco
  • 2 seats to any 2025-2026 The Basics of Mediation training (valued at $2,390)
  • Full-page ad in the event program
  • Full page ad in our electronic event program
  • Acknowledgements on website and social media
  • Acknowledgement by the Master of Ceremony

Leadership Circle – $2,500
Benefits include:

  • Table seating for 6 in Grand Salon, The City Club of San Francisco
  • 1 seat to any 2025-2026 The Basics of Mediation training (valued at $1,195)
  • Half-page page ad in the event program
  • Half-page ad in our electronic event program
  • Acknowledgements on website and social media
  • Acknowledgement by the Master of Ceremony

Partnership Circle – $1,000
Benefits include:

  • Table seating for 4 in Grand Salon, The City Club of San Francisco
  • Acknowledgement in the event program
  • Acknowledgement in our electronic event program
  • Acknowledgments on website and social media
  • Acknowledgement by the Master of Ceremony

Advocacy Circle – $500
Benefits include:

  • Table seating for 2 in Grand Salon, The City Club of San Francisco
  • Acknowledgement in the event program
  • Acknowledgement in our electronic event program
  • Acknowledgments on website and social media
  • Acknowledgement by the Master of Ceremony

AWARDS CEREMONY TICKETS

Join us at The City Club of San Francisco on Friday, June 13, to celebrate and honor this year’s award recipients. They truly reflect the courage, dedication, and commitment needed to engage in courageous connections and dialogue to effect real change.  As a ticket holder, you will savor an excellent brunch buffet in the Art Deco Grand Salon on the 9th floor, be energized by our special musical guest Diana Gameros, and enjoy the community of friends who await you.

CEREMONY TICKETS
CB Member: $85
Public: $100