Jackie Boor

Jackie Boor is an award-winning author, speech and debate coach, and seasoned mediator, facilitator, trainer, and civic engagement specialist. Her exceptional communication skills, plus an appreciation for diverse perspectives, is well-reflected in nearly three decades of work with, for instance, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and a variety of city, county, state and federal agencies. With a keen eye for detail, Jackie’s lifelong philosophy embraces the notion that difficult things take time but impossible things just take a little longer.

Mediator, Facilitator and Trainer

Mediator, facilitator and trainer for Lang & Associates, workplace, family and community two-party disputes (2007 to present); founding program manager and lead mediator for the Sacramento Mediation Center Multiple Party Dispute Resolution Service, specializing in interest-based conflict resolution and problem-solving strategies related to discrimination, crime, blight, nuisance and land use (1999-2007); co-facilitated with colleague Carol Wright numerous community stakeholder conversations and forums including the 2016 Sacramento Public Safety
Best Practices Forums; co-created with colleague Jeanette Sartain “PeaceMoves: Working with Conflict,” an innovative workshop designed to improve non-violent communication skills for re-entry prison inmates; POST-certified community partnership trainer for the Northern California Regional Community Policing Institute (1996-2003); and from 1999 to present, Basic and Advanced Mediation Skills trainer for numerous groups ranging from private business to federal government agencies.

Writer and Debate Coach

Freelance writer published in numerous publications, trade journals, and newspapers; brochures, press releases, resumes, biographies, business proposals, newsletters, annual reports, manuals, grant proposals and screenplays (1980 to present); Class A intercollegiate forensic speech and debate coach/judge for Los Rios Community College District (1990-95); edited The Smallest Things Make the Biggest Difference by Ray Haring, Ph.D. and We the People: a Story of Internment by Mary Tsukamoto; freelance writer for Valley Community Newspapers, Inc. (2004-09); and co-author of Inside the President’s Helicopter: Reflections of the White House Senior Pilot (Cable Publishing, 2011, and the widely acclaimed LOGAN: The Honorable Life and Scandalous Death of a Western Lawman (Cable Publishing, 2014).

Organization and Community Development

A Sacramento resident since 1975, represented Sacramento County District II on the Sacramento Transportation and Air Quality Collaborative, a multi-stakeholder organization dedicated to addressing long-term issues and policies related to air quality, transportation, land use and social equity, and was instrumental in creating citizen engagement component (2001-05); founding member of Sacramento ENRICHES, a children’s health and safety initiative, and wrote grants, developed promotional strategies and facilitated numerous group activities including a year-long Learning Circle Project funded by the Sierra Health Foundation focused on cultivating social capital (1998-2005); neighborhood organizer and special projects consultant for SAFE STREETS, a nonprofit community empowerment and grassroots mobilization organization (1994-98).

Awards and Honors

A Sacramento Area Council of Governments Citizen of the Year, 2005
SAFE STREETS 1995 Sacramento Hero of the Year
Ehrenreich Film Seminars Screen Writing Contest, First Place, 1995
Writer’s Block North Screenwriting Contest, First Place, 1995
Governor’s Cup National Invitational Best Ballot Award, 1991
2007 Sacramento International Music and Film Festival, 2nd Place Short Feature
Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship Top Ten Percent Finalist, 2008
Washington, DC Shorts International Film Festival Screenwriting Finalist, 2010
Numerous Community Service Recognitions from, for instance:

California State Assemblymember, Darrell Steinberg
California State Assemblymember, Dave Jones
California State Senator Deborah Ortiz
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson
KVIE Channel 6
Florin Road Partnership and Foundation
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department
Sacramento County Probation Department
Sacramento ENRICHES

Education and Affiliations

Southern Oregon College, 1969-70
Humboldt State University, 1970-73
US Dept of Justice Community Harmony Training, 1996
Basic Skills Mediation, 1999
Integrative Mediation Skills Training, 2000
Victim and Offender Mediation, 2001
Facilitating Large Groups in Conflict, 2005
Sacramento ENRICHES Board of Directors, 1995-2005
KVIE Channel 6 Community Advisory Board, 2001-2005
Association for Conflict Resolution, since 2003
Military Writers Society of America, since 2010
Florin Road Foundation Board of Directors, 1999-2004
Juvenile Restorative Justice Planning Committee, 1998-2002
Sacramento County Probation Neighborhood Accountability Board, 1998-2002
Sheriff’s Citizens’ Advisory Board, 1998-2000
Patterson Way Neighborhood Association Chair, 1976-2000
(lead nationally known neighborhood public nuisance lawsuit, 1991-1993)
Eileen Dutra Neighborhood Watch Chair, 2008-present