External Mediation Practitioners
As we work to rebuild and strengthen our programs, SEEDS is not currently offering direct mediation services. In the meantime, we’re sharing a list of partner practitioners and organizations who can support mediation and conflict-resolution needs.
Robin Pomerenke
They/Them
Robin is passionate about growing our capacities for communication involving play and creativity. They are an experienced trainer, mediator, and coach with a background in gender studies, law, children’s entertainment, and conflict resolution modalities. Their work is grounded in the realization that holding space for others in conflict creates agency and leads to collective liberation. Through a focus on feelings and building emotional intelligence, they try to embody the concept of softness as power.As a queer neurodivergent nonbinary person of Italian and Mexican lineages, Robin is often sitting in the mysteries of existing beyond binaries and welcomes humility in the lifelong journey of (un)learning holding intersecting marginalizations and privileges.
619-985-7197
Specialty: Mediation for HR, housemates, friendships, business partnerships, neurodivergent, polyamorous, queer, and trans community members.
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Phoebe Smith
She/Her/Ella
Phoebe Smith is a Restorative Practices Practitioner, veteran teacher of 18 years and a facilitator of special curricula related to team and community building, mental health wellness and organizational development through the lens of restorative practices. Phoebe is also a highly recommended certified mediator through Community Boards San Francisco and the SEEDS Organization of Berkeley. Phoebe specializes in working with teams and groups in need of restoration and/or elevating team dynamics. With 12 years of experience, Phoebe is a highly skilled Anti-racist and Anti-bias coach, RP trainer, circle keeper and executive leadership coach. Phoebe has earned a Masters in Public Health, Community Organization and a Masters in Education, Curriculum Development. She specializes in coaching and guiding staff, students, organizations and families through the restorative practices healing and community building process.
Specialty: Mediation for HR and peer mediations within organizations
Sliding scale rates available for individuals.
Adriana Scott
She/Her/Hers
Adriana L. Scott (She/Her) is a Conflict Transformation Practitioner. She renders interventions for organizations and local communities through mediation, facilitation, coaching and short-term discussions. Adriana holds a Master’s degree in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Adriana integrates mediation tools to bond human connections by searching for and deepening opportunities for intersectionality, specifically through the combination of meaningful dialogue, accountability and the compassionate recognition of each party’s individual values and interests.
As a middle child growing up in a traditional Jamaican household, Adriana instinctively embraced the role of mediator, not only between her siblings but also her parents. Having experienced various instances of trauma while coming into her own being, Adriana has worked intently to understand and address the effects of those situations, ultimately defining and refining her sense of self to be one filled with peace, empathy, and growth. Adriana gravitates toward people, connecting beyond the surface to create a safe space rooted in the heart of who one is, and how they desire to express themselves unapologetically.
Specialty: Mediation for HR, community- based mediations, partnership/interpersonal, non-profit organizations
Sliding scale rates available for individuals.
Free intake for new clients.
Tim Harlan-Marks
They/Them
Tim Harlan-Marks (they/them) is a mediator, facilitator, and trainer with over 15 years of experience cultivating resilient cultures of belonging within organizations, families and communities. Tim says of their work, "there's something in me that can't give up on ‘us.’ The big ‘us’, which includes all of us. I believe in our capacity to rise above patterns of othering, separation and domination. And we must if we're going to make it through this era of so many overlapping crises. This is what my work is about. Facilitating the conditions to say what needs to be said, listen to what needs to be heard, find one another across our differences and chart a new course together." Tim’s training and facilitation work includes roles with groups such as Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Cheeseboard Collective and San Francisco Community Land Trust. Tim is a certified Conflict Mediator (SEEDS Conflict Resolution Center), a trained Transformative Justice practitioner (Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective), and an ongoing student of diversity dialogue facilitator, Lee Mun Wah, white anti-racism writer and activist, Paul Kivel, and psychologist and conflict zone facilitator, Gary Reiss. They have a certificate in Dialogue Education from Global Learning Partners, are trained in coaching by Leadership That Works, experiential learning design by Training for Change, and Process Oriented Psychology by Process Work Institute.
Specialty: Non-profit organizations, cooperative businesses, couples, families, and communal living situations.
Lauren Lofton
They/Them/Theirs
Sliding scale rates available for organizations.
Specialty: Mediation for HR/workplace, coalition resolution, co-op and collectives (including co-living), peer-to-peer, neighbor-to-neighbor disputes
Lauren (they/them) is a conflict transformation practitioner, mediator, and trainer and former SEEDS Special Projects Manager. They joined the SEEDS community in 2017 as a part-time practitioner and eventually became core staff. They are an attorney who began their conflict transformation journey in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
As the SEEDS Special Projects Manager, they specialized in the creation of sustainable business development models and program projects in partnership with executive leadership and effective program implementation and impact. They also acted as the communications team lead. They co-developed SEEDS' DEIB framework, Theory of Action/Change, and supported organization-wide program evaluation and organizational effectiveness through staff retreats. They also served as a senior practitioner in mediation, and a lead organizational effectiveness services trainer. Lauren has worked with for-profits, non-profits, small businesses, collectives, coalitions, co-ops, and community members (including peer-to-peer, neighbor-to-neighbor, co-living/housemate disputes).
Lauren is bi-racial (Black/white), a proud member of the LGBT+ community, a person with a non-visible disability and neurodivergence. Their lived experiences shape their conflict transformation practices as an intersectional, trauma-informed, bridge builder and peace keeper. Lauren has been recognized with a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging award and was selected as a "Top 40 Under the Age of 40" by the LGBT+ Bar Association.
Sliding scale rates available.
Andrew Greenia
He/Him
Andrew Greenia is a coach, facilitator, and barber. A bridge-builder by nature and community organizer by training, Andrew’s work centers on helping people lean into curiosity and lead with integrity. He spent the first decade of his career working with leaders - from local community groups to national non-profits - to drive equitable change and cultivate inclusive cultures. Today, Andrew works with students and organizational leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business, helping them build self-awareness and practical interpersonal skills to cultivate connection. He also cuts hair at Dax Lee's Barber & Apothecary in Oakland - both roles involve creating space for people to show up as themselves. Andrew holds a B.A. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago and an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation and a certified conflict mediator.
Specialty: Open to all types of clients but has experience with organizational leaders.