Alice Wins a San Francisco Peacemaker Award

In June of 2025, Community Boards awarded Alice Shikina one of the three San Francisco Peacemaker Awards for making San Francisco a city of healthier, more just and peaceful neighborhoods and communities. She received The Raymond Shonholtz Visionary Peacemaker Award, given to an outstanding individual who has made or is making significant contributions to peacemaking, community building and anti-violence work in San Francisco.

Describing the award recipients, Community Boards shares:

“We salute and celebrate change makers, community builders, anti-violence advocates, and on-the-ground peacemakers. These awards recognize an adult, a youth, and an organization with proven track records. They truly reflect the courage, dedication, and commitment needed to engage in these courageous connections.”

Praising Alice as a 2025 recipient of this award:

“She has devoted her professional life to promoting the use of mediation and other collaborative approaches to address and resolve conflict. 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 mediators for families and international au pairs. Motivated by the success, she went on to volunteer as a Day of Court mediator with Alameda County, mediating hundreds of cases ranging from evictions to small claims. She is a volunteer mediator with both the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability and the Oakland Police Review Agency where she helps community members and police officers communicate on interactions community members find concerning. She also volunteers with the SF Bar Association’s Conflict Intervention Services, providing eviction prevention mediations. She presents at the ‘Second Saturday Free Divorce Workshop’ on how mediation can assist divorcing couples dissolve their relationships in a peaceful way. In her own full-time private practice, she provides elder-care, divorce, and workplace mediations, as well as family reconciliations. She is currently on the ADR Executive Committee of the Alameda Bar Association and the Chair of the Conference Committee for the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. Her energy and passion for mediation is incredibly inspiring and impactful.

Learn more about Community Boards and their Peacemaker Awards.