Community Boards’ 15th Annual San Francisco Peacemaker Awards ceremony acknowledged, honored, and celebrated the significant contributions of this year’s award recipients for making San Francisco a city of healthier, more just, and peaceful neighborhoods and communities. They 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. Maggie Weis, PNA chairperson, accepted the award (on left, above). Learn more about Portola Neighborhood Association.
WE THANK OUR 2025 SPONSORS
WE THANK OUR DONORS
Terry Amsler | Wendy Cariffe | Elizabeth Shwiff | Paul Renne
Stephen Spano | Marion Standish | Jenny Yu
Sondra Price in honor of my sister Sheila
Wendy Cariffe in honor of all Mediation Volunteers
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