Rethinking Organizations & Community Through Peer Programs,
Restorative Practices, Conflict Resolution, Conscious Communication
About Our Approach
Peer Advocates Training and Consulting is founded upon the concept that it is highly beneficial for all people to be understood, considered, and valued. We help groups, organizations, and individuals develop the practices, programs, and skills necessary to achieve understanding, positive communication, collaboration, and cooperation.
Our goal is to help you create a thriving, safe, and comfortable community with beneficial outcomes for all participants.
Our method is highly relational, interactive, and collaborative. We use a hands-on and experiential approach to training, consulting, and facilitating.
Our solutions include curricula and trainings that we customize to meet your essential requirements while remaining true to industry best practices. We’ll work with you to develop programs and practices that best suit your organization and individual needs.
About Our Team
Yejide Ankobia is a highly skilled and experienced Restorative Justice (RJ) practitioner, trainer, and consultant. Since 2006, she has designed, developed, coordinated, and implemented Restorative Justice Programs and Practices in schools and school districts, community organizations, prisons, and workplace settings. More...
Carlo Gómez Arteaga is an experienced organizer, public policy advocate, group facilitator, and trainer with over twenty years of experience focused on LGBTQI+, Immigrant, and Youth Equity. As the Development Coordinator for the Dolores Huerta Foundation, Mr. Gómez Arteaga worked with the organization on its mission to inspire and organize communities to build volunteer organizations empowered to pursue social justice. The foundation’s work was focused on Civic Engagement, Education Equity, Health, and Safety, and LGBTQIA+ Equality. More...
Tim Fisher is an experienced Restorative Justice Practitioner, Group Facilitator, Peer Specialist, and a Trainer and Consultant focused on issues of the LGBTQI+, senior, and incarcerated men communities. As a Facilitator and Peer Specialist with The Pacific Center for Human Growth in Berkeley, CA, Mr. Fisher facilitates Peer Support Groups as well as those directed towards specific demographics, including Older & Out and The Middlemen Peer Support Group. More...
Dr. Komoia Johnson is an experienced Trainer, Curriculum Designer, and Restorative Justice (RJ)/Conflict Resolution Practitioner in the Bay Area since 2006. Her training audience includes schoolteachers, students, families, and administrators, locally and nationally as well as community-based organizations, professors, teachers in training, and mental health interns and licensed practitioners in higher education. In addition to restorative justice and conflict resolution skills, Dr. Johnson is trained in Nonviolent Communication, Behavior Analysis Case Management, and Coaching for Equity. More...
Hilary Roberts, Founder and Executive Director of Peer Advocates Training and Consulting and author of Peer Advocates in Action, is a much sought-after Trainer, Consultant, Conference Presenter, and Curriculum Developer specializing in Transformative Education. The focus of her expertise is to help public and private organizations to rethink and reshape organizational and personal culture, climate, communication and collaboration practices, and disciplinary responses. Her work is well known throughout the west coast by municipal and state governments, school districts and universities as well as community groups and individuals. More...
André Robinson has had a peripatetic career as a Teacher, Writer, Producer, Director, and Community and Cultural Organizer. He also works around the country as a Producer of Creative Content in an array of expressions. After college, Mr. Robinson began his career in theater with the Ebony Impromptu Theater Company, directed by Harry Poe. More...
Gary "Malachi" Scott is the re-entry/community restorative justice coordinator for Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and co-founder of Atunse Justice League. He holds restorative circles/trainings nationally and is helping to build a community restorative justice framework in North Oakland. Mr. Scott co-founded the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council and served on the Safety and Services Oversight Commission (Measure Z) in Oakland. More...
Naima Shalhoub is an experienced Restorative Justice Practitioner (RJ), Educator, Community Organizer and Musician. She is passionate about the intersections of art, music, trauma healing somatic, practices, community building and transformation and centers compassion, systemic change, social justice and radical joy in the work that she holds in community. As a first-generation daughter of Arab refugee immigrants, her upbringing deeply informs the heart of her work. More...
Dr. Angela Smith is an educator, restorative practices professional, and equity-centered leadership consultant with extensive experience supporting schools, nonprofit organizations, youth-serving programs, and community-based initiatives. Her work focuses on communication,
belonging, restorative dialogue, cultural responsiveness, and creating inclusive environments where students, educators, staff, and communities can thrive. More...
