Experience

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  You Are Not Alone, Florida International Univer...

  • Miami, Florida, United States

  • YANA-FIU monthly conflict resolution/restorative justice guidance

    • May 2023 - Present
    • Miami, Florida, United States
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  ALAS HMB

  • Half Moon Bay, California, United States

  • Consultant

    • May 2017 - Present
    • Half Moon Bay, California, United States

    Workshops in Nonviolent Communication and conflict resolution within organizational development; Triad Tapping and trauma-informed skillsets for mental health staff; on -call crisis intervention; assistance with grant writing for bringing Capacity Path to ALAS HMB

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  Berkeley Mediation & Restorative Justice Pr...

  • Berkeley, Califorina

  • Founding Principal

    • Nov 2006 - Present
    • Berkeley, Califorina

    As a certified mediator and licensed restorative justice practitioner, Pepper Black works with you as an individual or with your organization, institution or group to: - Identify and address risks and oversights - Generate your own method for creating a safe environment for managing conflict and ...

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  ACLU

  • Berkeley, California, United States

  • restorative justice advocate

    • Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
    • Berkeley, California, United States

    Assisted in inmate information gathering and distribution to ACLU lawyers in Berkeley and Southern California for the Lompoc Minimum Security Prison ACLU class action lawsuit against Terminal Island and Lompoc Bureau of Prisons.

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  University of San Francisco

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Crisis Response Triage Team

    • Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    The brainchild of Dr. Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, professor at USF, and creator of the nonprofit ALAS, the Crisis Response Triage Team responds to manmade and natural disasters to assess for safety concerns and humanitarian outreach needs as well as to follow those most in need in collaboration wi...

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  Notre Dame de Namur & Santa Clara Universit...

  • guest lecturer in Restorative Justice Practices and the Triad Method of Tapping

    • 2014 - 2020
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  restorative justice project for migrants : Suic...

  • Singapore, Singapore

  • Consultant

    • Jan 2019 - May 2019
    • Singapore, Singapore

    Along with Dr. Jean Pierre Ndgadijimana as lead, in cooperation with We the Good and Hope Initiative Alliance, we offered consultation on designing and implementing a suicide prevention program for migrant workers in Singpore.

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  University of California, Berkeley

  • Berkeley, CA

  • Program Director, Student Affairs

    • 1997 - 2012
    • Berkeley, CA

    This position, unique to all nine University of California campuses, offered Pepper continual variety and fresh challenges, and has been compared to being the mayor of a small town, in this case, an international community of scholars. Pepper was given oversight of this community of three thousan...

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  University of California, Los Angeles Medical C...

  • Westwood, California

  • Psychiatric Counselor, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Semel Institute for Neuros...

    • 1972 - 1973
    • Westwood, California

    Pepper held this full time position with the Drug Triage Unit of the then Neuropsychiatric Institute, since renamed the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, which ended when the unit was phased out to community and governmental agencies to do the work. Pepper moved to a position i...