https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/news daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/news/march2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-31 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/news/blog-post-title-one-dn6pe-acyfl-33rwj monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/news/blog-post-title-one-dn6pe-acyfl monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/news/blog-post-title-one-dn6pe monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/news/blog-post-title-two-xsgfa monthly 0.5 2025-05-12 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/home daily 1.0 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1597169561689-YW1SIKLHZRM097GMX0KT/IMG_9398.jpg Home - Our Mission The Oakland Peace Center (OPC) provides needed space, hosts collaborative events and trainings, and creates a network of emotional and spiritual support for the 30+ organizations who partner in its work. These organizations pursue access, opportunity, justice, and inner peace throughout the Bay Area each in their own way. They can turn to the Oakland Peace Center to fortify and amplify these efforts through solidarity and cross-pollination. The OPC supports these organizations to participate in a vision larger than that of any individual or member organization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1597172660215-AWUNS19FH5NPV7M452TL/Shelton+Hall+Gallery+Space Home - Our Space The Oakland Peace Center offers a variety of spaces to the community for mission-aligned work, events, and activities under donation-based agreements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1599000597335-R1GY8ZDAU9FMG5C00U8G/urbanreleaf.jpg Home - Our Partners Our 35+ in-house and at-large partners include educators, advocates, social changemakers, publishers, spiritual activists, justice seekers, empowered youth, prophetic artists, inspired musicians, all of whom pursue access, opportunity, justice, and inner peace throughout the Bay Area each in their own way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1608244776775-4LLMC1Q168Q10MA9M8Z1/Annual+Report+2020-2021.png Home - Annual Reports Click below to see our Annual Reports. https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/our-team daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/a955283c-641a-4bee-949a-d3facc8d6c9d/Ellie+Headshot+2025.jpg Our Team - Eleanor (Ellie) Blake Accounting Consultant After many years in nonprofit management, Ellie decided to learn accounting to help nonprofits and small businesses understand their financial data and integrate it into their strategic decision-making. A self-professed "intrapraneur," she enjoys building the internal systems that help organizations run smoothly and successfully. Her work is dedicated to collaborative creative solutions, wellness, and celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/73411d66-5904-424d-9c5a-708bf1a9a889/Kalynn_Blakely_staff_photo.jpg Our Team - Kalynn Blakely Executive Director Kalynn is a compassionate and pragmatic social impact professional with over a decade of experience in facilitating understanding to build relationships and manage resources for community benefit. They are passionate about urban planning, environmental justice, user experience design, and disco. You can reach them via email at kalynn@oaklandpeacecenter.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/5c7c776a-1f08-4496-a13b-a2ede9c7bf26/OPC+headshot.jpg Our Team - Don Falk Housing Consultant Don Falk served as Chief Executive Officer of Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation from 2005-2021, having been it Director of Housing Development from 1994-2005. Under his leadership as CEO, TNDC’s portfolio doubled to over 4000 homes and its staff grew to 500. For 10 years prior to TNDC, Don worked as Director of Housing Development, Deputy Director, and Co-Executive Director for Jubilee West, a nonprofit housing and social services organization based in West Oakland. Don earned a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA with honors in Economics and Urban Studies from Oberlin College. Don has served on numerous Boards and advisory committees, including the Corporation for Supportive Housing, Insight Housing, SPUR and the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California. https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/our-partners daily 0.75 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1614047896651-9F8HG2STDS87LBNA5LWX/bcee.gif Our Partners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1614047819299-5HU6S8PJZ778VGUAEBKH/FCCO.jpg Our Partners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/d7c73d2a-fb9d-4d4e-90f2-2279362c35d7/Project+Darreis.jpg Our Partners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/7db63b4f-a9ae-4c01-8991-4f4ad6dc2eb4/Project+Niner.png Our Partners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/51bb2b96-b4b3-4030-a6b9-0496d1fc4e8a/recovery+dharma+east+bay+logo.png Our Partners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1614048650082-TGT381KRHXGDSZQURSUO/ss-logo.png Our Partners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/18b13d44-332a-4b32-8670-0a881cedb4c4/voices+in+a+new+world.jpg Our Partners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/our-mission daily 0.75 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/84628cec-9c0e-4256-884a-edfd50d69bda/Wheel+of+Integral+Nonviolence.jpg Our Mission - Make it stand out Source: Chico Peace & Justice Center Artwork: Oakland Peace Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598033892967-QCVSWG6XTAVUAUIVKPME/20171104_114456.jpg Our Mission - 1. As partners working together, we will function out of a culture of “first do no harm,” pausing to ask if our words or actions might be harming another and using that as a guide in our personal interactions. In our interactions with each other we will seek to understand one another and approach each other with curiosity rather than skepticism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598035196297-IWGH7JOL8JAXDLGMARL1/resourcefairshakinghands.JPG Our Mission - 2. We commit within our partnered work to a culture of nonviolence. Even if our own organizations practice nonviolence, we will seek out opportunities to delve into the discipline of nonviolence with other OPC partners to deepen our shared practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598035346315-ZCEME1AAAD138H43SGPM/FullSizeRender+%282%29.JPG Our Mission - 3. We commit to watching out for each other to keep the building safe whenever we are in the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598035916526-P3AK8M07MJ11QHFL7IFP/retreatchaircircle1.JPG Our Mission - 4. Recognizing that conquest and slavery are the foundations of this country, we commit to practicing racial equity. As we work collaboratively over time, we also commit to deepening our cultural competency with our partners from many backgrounds within the OPC collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598035977891-D2T0CTSWZL012P6K5AHT/IMG_2134.jpg Our Mission - 5. We commit to creating a shared space that honors the dignity of poor and homeless people and to working together against the criminalization of homeless people, people of color and youth. To that end, we commit to seeking alternatives to calling the police when people are on our property or when people are on our property for non-OPC purposes, turning to other alternatives laid out in our OPC procedures document. We commit to doing so while keeping building users safe. We also commit to creating spaces to address the issue of economic violence, giving preference to the voices of poor and homeless people in shaping the solutions for our community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598036223194-DGD48JHKVOSACLBGDX51/kingiannonviolencetraining.jpg Our Mission - 6. Recognizing the need for access to mental health services for poor and working class communities and for intergenerational opportunities to practice peacebuilding and to manage conflict in healthy ways, we commit to exploring how we can work together to address these specific needs for the sake of both inner peace and peace in our society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598301173326-JYIS26QB8ZS1DZFANM4F/C6D2E722-F175-43F8-AFE5-97AA889BDE7B.jpg Our Mission - 7. Recognizing that our peace relies on harmony with the environment, we commit to honoring the earth and acknowledging the original inhabitants of the land each time we gather individually or collectively, recognizing that the land and the building and our ancestors are also partners in our work together. We also commit to making this building and our practices within this building the best they can be for the earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598036460893-5ZERYSDCNHOQTB8M0VJC/IMG_0126+%281%29.JPG Our Mission - 8. The Oakland Peace Center foundationally supports equity, access and dignity for all. All partners adhere to these principles in general and specifically to communities experiencing a lack of equity, access and dignity. Partners commit to treating with honor and respect people with disabilities, people of color, people across the gender and sexuality spectrum, and people regardless of income who are in this space. Similarly, all users of the building will honor and treat with respect the building and the land on which it was built and treat them with dignity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598036548237-78SQOIQVHSC31ZA20KBH/IMG_2649.jpg Our Mission - 9. Individual partners may address specific aspects of peace, but as a collective, the Oakland Peace Center lifts up holistic approaches to creating peace, which involve the personal, the social, and the systemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598039659659-Y4I4NX2AY7O458I5ZT2K/IMG_2642.jpg Our Mission - 10. In the midst of a complicated history related to both violence and displacement which called us into being, the partners of the Oakland Peace Center commit to lifting up and honoring the cultural heritage and history of Oakland, appreciating and loving the people, the land, the Town, and the broader Bay Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598039811816-Q6OHGHVYD41YQ679OS3J/panelattendees.jpg Our Mission - 11. We commit to exploring together the possibility of financial or other commitments by OPC partners to represent their investment in being a part of the Oakland Peace Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1598039943040-30TTSRM9W01Q58JH4WMU/IMG_5245.JPG Our Mission - 12. We commit to supporting each other in bringing our whole selves into our shared work: our family-connected selves, our spiritual selves, our activist selves, our particular gender-identifying selves. We commit to working together to build a community at the Oakland Peace Center where we do not have to diminish any part of who we are in order to be in relationship with one another. https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/about-the-space daily 0.75 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/ae77788f-bbb4-4ee1-ac08-64ff824c7448/OPC+office.jpg About the Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/030039d1-5a44-4403-9753-2e6a708a038b/OPC+Sanctuary.jpeg About the Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/c0430d5e-06dc-46bd-9479-f0871c6377cf/Shelton+Hall.jpeg About the Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1596646603352-68G6ZZYZ0KXUUIW5XXSO/1%252BFH-stage.jpg About the Space https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/requestspace daily 0.75 2024-10-16 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/contact daily 0.75 2024-12-24 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/board daily 0.75 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/2c8b639f-0c32-4a21-9fcd-c42d9727ee32/Renato+Almanzor.LS.jpg Our Board of Directors - Dr. Renato Almanzor Treasurer Renato Almanzor is a transformation catalyst, whose experience emerges from 30 years developing leaders committed to transformative social change. As a leadership development expert, he delivers university courses, programs, keynote addresses, and seminars on issues related to leadership, equity, and organization design. His work has been dedicated to supporting leaders working with and in low-income communities and communities of color. He has a PhD and MA in organizational psychology, an MS in counseling, and BA in psychology, as well as certifications in coaching and Zumba Instruction. He serves on the Boards for East Bay Meditation Center and the Oakland Peace Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/81af291d-b9c1-44fc-a280-c0598129052d/NB+at+LCC+2022.jpg Our Board of Directors - Norman Bardsley Norman Bardsley grew up in a small town near Manchester in northern England, among a family with four generations of members of a small church affiliated with the Disciples of Christ. He was educated in mathematics and physics at Cambridge and Manchester Universities and came to the US in 1968. The three major phases of his career were as a Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh, a research manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as a consultant on lighting and electronic displays to the US Display Consortium, the US Department of Energy and the International Solid-State Lighting Alliance. He is a member of Lafayette Christian Church and chairs the Economic Justice Task Force of the Multi-faith ACTION Coalition in Contra Costa County. Norman has three children, five grand-children and one great grandson, scattered around the US and UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/f2dc8155-d87e-4b11-95a6-fb8e59766046/revdrmonicacrossjpg Our Board of Directors - Rev. Dr. Monica Cross President Rev. Dr. Monica Joy Cross serves as Pastor at First Christian Church of Oakland in Oakland, Ca., Associate Minister at Tapestry Ministries in Berkeley, Ca., and Director of Women’s Ministries in the Northern California Nevada Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She is a Transformational Leader Fellow of the Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle of Auburn Seminary in New York, City, NY, and Founder of Global Prayer Network. Her activist organizing work includes, Laney Teach In/Poor People's Campaign League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and work with the National Center for Transgender Equality. She has authored: Reflections of a Prophet Without Honor - a book of reflections which emerge from her life with God; Authenticity and Imagination in the Face of Oppression - Autobiographical, it addresses gender, race, religion, sexuality, and strategies towards liberation, and has a Blog entitled: The Transgender Scholar. While being a native of Southern California Monica currently makes her home in Richmond, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/affe1372-04af-4a11-b47b-33840bd448d5/LaDonna+Harris.jpg Our Board of Directors - Rev. LaDonna Harris Reverend LaDonna Harris serves as the Senior Pastor of The Church By the Side of the Road (CBSOR) in Berkeley, CA. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and has lived a life of service. LaDonna served Alameda County for thirty years in the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and as the Chief Probation Officer for four years. She was the first African American woman to be promoted to Captain and then Division Commander in the Sheriff’s Office. She is now the first woman to be the Senior Pastor at CBSOR. LaDonna received her Master of Leadership from St. Mary’s College of California and a Master of Divinity from American Baptist Seminary of the West (now Berkeley School of Theology). She is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). LaDonna believes the world is waiting for transformation, and we are the ones we have been waiting for. She believes we must love first, love always, and we should strive to be a blessing to someone every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/0ec15b12-9c56-4600-b58d-bc7aad496f91/image0.jpg Our Board of Directors - Jeffrey Ishmael Secretary Jeffrey (he/him) is the Chaplain for the Outpatient Palliative Care Team at John Muir Health, Walnut Creek. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley CA. His residency and fellowship in Clinical Pastoral Education was at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where he started his work in end-of-life care with children and families living with Cystic Fibrosis. He has held both spiritual care and bereavement care positions at California Pacific Medical Center, Kindred Hospice, Vitas Hospice, George Mark Children’s House, Kaiser Hospital, San Francisco Juvenile Hall, and Larkin Street Youth Center. Before his career in chaplaincy Jeffrey was a hairdresser and owned his salon in Lexington, Kentucky. He worked his way through Architecture at University of Kentucky, moving to San Francisco in 1994 after graduation. He was ordained at FCC Concord in 2000 and is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. In addition to serving on OPC’s board, he has served as a trustee for First Christian Church Oakland since 2009 and is also an Elder for Lafayette Christian Church. Jeffrey lives in Martinez with his husband Henry Velasco, two teen children Haylee and Sage, and Grandma Velasco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/d3b3b6e1-5a99-4448-9040-a26c6b4b009c/Jim_Mitulski.jpg Our Board of Directors - Jim Mitulski Vice President Reverend Jim Mitulski has been a pastor and community organizer for almost 40 years, in New York City, San Francisco, Berkeley, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta and Boston. He is currently the interim pastor of Island United Church in Foster CIty, co-president of the Peninsula Mutlifaith Coalition, and an active member of the NAACP San Mateo Branch. Jim brings many years of LGBT and HIV/AIDS activism to the OPC board. Jim has done non-profit development and fundraising for several religious, educational, political and arts organizations and has helped establish community centers in several cities. Jim is a resident of Oakland, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/8e1d5c3d-94ce-453a-94b9-f9706e7ea960/Sr+Marie+Taylor.png Our Board of Directors - Sr. Marie de Porres Taylor Sister Marie de Porres Taylor has been an outspoken advocate and leader in support of social justice, inclusion, and equality within the Oakland area for decades. Sister Marie entered the Sisters of Holy Name of Jesus and Mary in 1965, where she earned an undergraduate and a Master’s degree in Home Economics. She taught religion and home economics at Holy Names High School in Oakland for approximately ten years. Soon after, she accepted the position of Pastoral Associate at St. Benedict Church in East Oakland, where she developed and launched a leadership training program for youth, known today as the Youth Connection. Her success led her to become the first female President of the United East Oakland Clergy. After five years, she accepted a Director position at the Diocese of Oakland for the Black Catholic Vicariate, where she was involved in community outreach and education. Through the early 1990’s, Sister Marie served as the Executive Director at the National Black Catholic Sisters Conference, working to improve the inclusion of Black members and culture within the Catholic Church. Her experience led her to become Director of Displaced Workers for the Oakland Private Industry Council, where she helped to retrain displaced factory workers affected by massive layoffs. Her ability to lead was noticed by the Office of Mayor Elihu Harris, who recruited her to manage community outreach projects and employment and training issues. Following this, she worked with the Oakland Housing Authority, where she provided leadership development training for public housing residents through the Hope VI Program. Her work was focused on the housing communities of Coliseum Gardens and Lockwood Gardens. Her success with those programs led to positions in the Department of Public Health in Contra Costa County, Catholic Charities of San Francisco, and food policy organizations. Sister Marie also served on the California Department of Consumer Affairs Licensing of Vocational Nurses and Psychiatric Technicians Board. She served as president of the board during her tenure. Pursuing her personal goals of starting a business, Sister Marie owned and operated Thyme Café in the Laurel District of Oakland before entering retirement. Even during retirement, she remains active by helping to develop the resident leadership council at Westlake Christian Terrace, an affordable housing community in Oakland. She also serves as Vice President at the East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO), President of Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR), and President of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/3b9522bb-0082-4eab-9b1f-ff3ffd857250/ANGELA.jpg Our Board of Directors - Angela Urata Angela has enjoyed leading programmatic, financial and administrative processes in the nonprofit sector. She believes in the power of mindfulness practices in order to resolve trauma and cultivate inner peace in schools and juvenile halls; she is inspired by the next generation of peacemakers who are using social and emotional learning tools to engage in restorative justice practices and nonviolent communication; she is committed to international solidarity movements for just immigration, fair trade policies and food sovereignty. Angela is a dancer and storyteller, who is counting on the artists to help shape the world during these uncertain times. https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/annual-reports daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/9455cee4-b348-4c6d-9346-010244b15093/OPC+-+2024+Annual+Report.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1612837520042-JTCU2M0HDOUVU83U7FEH/OPC-Annual-Report-2018-2019_image.png Annual Reports 2018-2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1612837608147-CAY5Z26VQ24LHOX6V5AC/OPC-Annual-Report-2017-2018_image.png Annual Reports 2017-2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1612837642626-7RFTA3YMS1APGFMY48ID/OPC-Annual-Report-2016-2017_image.png Annual Reports 2016-2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1612837675944-5CCT3D8Y7KB1Q5PKSPAN/OPC-Annual-Report-2015-2016_image.png Annual Reports 2015-2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1612837708160-003HIGRW13Z5QHCCKQ85/OPC-Annual-Report-2014-2015_image.png Annual Reports 2014-2015 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/careers daily 0.75 2024-10-16 https://www.oaklandpeacecenter.org/programs daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/fd31ccb1-a4c4-4c0d-a346-fc6ab3b22290/7%2BPatio-Rm-1.jpg Programs - Office Space for Social Impact The Oakland Peace Center provides affordable space rentals for collaboration, innovation, change-making and wellbeing. These partners are responding to immediate material needs, providing tools for resilience, or organizing strategies to dismantle oppression. In providing space well below-market rates, we help alleviate the inequitable burdens of capitalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/c344f7e2-62e6-469e-9a32-91df87587bf0/kingiannonviolencetraining.jpg Programs - Community Group & Event Space The Oakland Peace Center offers spaces to the community for mission-aligned events and activities. We have a variety of large halls for gatherings or meetings and flex-spaces that have hosted activities such as: dance classes and performances, art galleries, group art classes, choral group practices, and stage performances. View some of these spaces here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/fe20563b-7bcd-4f14-a133-8a058874e343/unsplash-image-lUaaKCUANVI.jpg Programs - Beloved Book Club Beloved Book Club is is a space for folks to learn more about (racial, economic, and environmental) justice and community organizing to empower and connect people. Beloved Book Club will take place on the 4th Thursday of the month from 6:00 to 7:30pm. The next book we'll discuss is The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity by Greg Garrett. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/e68152b0-1edc-4d07-9089-96858026af9f/Writeins.png Programs - Write Ins This program provides a peaceful place for writers to work along side one another and build community. OPC values artistic expression as a healing practice and promotes the sharing of different perspectives. We hope to develop this further based on community feedback. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/41429d9c-1074-43fe-adb0-7116a445f8bd/Youth+Sustaining+Peace+Award+Presentation.pptx.png Programs - Youth Sustaining Peace Youth Sustaining Peace is a workshop series that educates and empowers young people to speak up about environmental sustainability. This free program aims to uplift youth as leaders in creating more sustainable communities. Youth receive stipends, certificates, & sustainable swag for completing the program. Select applicants receive additional media training while working on a short video documenting the workshop series. Youth Sustaining Peace is a collaboration between Oakland Peace Center and Resilience Birthright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/79d6b324-7e1b-4d6f-b189-148c51c3ed45/urbanreleaf.jpg Programs - Community Resilience Garden The garden at OPC was developed in collaboration with the Hummingbirds Urban Farming Collective and Planting Justice. The community garden is a living food bank, a center for community connection, and a space to explore ancestral uses of food as medicine. Use the button below to let us know if you would like to get involved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f233ce625700d625c7282a9/1733251522674-3MN90MHOA6BJIYZ33LK8/unsplash-image-Yeit9w-RWUA.jpg Programs - Lift Every Voice: Leader Development Program Lift Every Voice is a leadership development program that helps people embrace leadership in the many ways it presents itself so that participants are empowered to lead change in their personal lives and communities. Program participants will learn from facilitated group discussions and workshops with guest speakers from a range of diverse backgrounds including leaders in civil rights movements, political change, community organizing, and folks not traditionally uplifted as leaders. Anyone can be a leader regardless of their title or position. Leadership is a service to others. 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