Alice Shikina is the embodiment of the ‘mediation movement.’ She mentors new mediators, volunteers with many community-based mediation programs, trains people in the art of negotiation, and devotes her career to mediation.

Alice’s path to mediation began nearly 15 years ago when she mediated at AuPairCare, helping host families and au pairs improve their cross-cultural understandings and keep their relationships intact. Fascinated and 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.

Alice is a volunteer mediator and trainer with both the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability and Oakland Police Review Agency where she supports community members and police officers for open, respectful, and productive conversations on interactions community members find concerning. She also volunteers with the SF Bar Association’s Conflict Intervention Services, providing eviction prevention mediations between low income tenants and their landlords, and presents at the ‘Second Saturday Free Divorce Workshop’ on how mediation can assist divorcing couples dissolve their relationships in a kind, humane, and peaceful way.

In her own full-time private practice, Alice provides elder-care, divorce, and workplace mediations, as well as family reconciliations. Her eight-week course in negotiation is open to people at all levels of learning. She is the former Vice President of the Board of Directors at Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center (PCRC) and 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. You can hear her thoughts on mediation and negotiation on her podcast ‘Negotiating with Alice’ on Spotify and Apple. Her energy and passion for mediation is vastly inspiring and impactful.