Aryeh Shell Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

I lead the development and scaling of the Community Climate Action Training and Global Network of climate justice activists to strengthen our movements for a just and regenerative future.

As the Director of Training & Education, my responsibilities included training staff, volunteers and interns, setting the department’s strategic direction, and designing and facilitating innovative trainings and programs aimed at developing the capacity of organizations and communities around conservation, health, human rights, and social change. - Designed and implemented the East African Girls Leadership Summit (EAGLS) and Mentorship program with a cohort of organizations and schools throughout Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda and Uganda. EAGLS strengthens girls’ leadership and womens’ mentorship abilities through a summit, training, coaching, and toolkits, designed to elevate girls and women as leaders. - Lead author and trainer of a Gender Responsive Pedagogy Teacher’s Handbook for the Forum of African Women Educationalists (FAWE), UNESCO and UNICEF to be used across Africa.- Designed and implemented the Creative Environmental Leadership Program that consists of training, coaching and ongoing-technical support for cohorts of environmental nonprofits throughout Africa and Central America. The training program includes four 3-day modules in Creative Leadership, Facilitation, Collaboration and Systems Change, with curriculum that is grounded in arts-based popular education methodology. This program has been implemented in Ghana, Cameroon, Belize, Guatemala, and Peru with 83 grassroots organizations.- Designed and implemented professional development leadership trainings, dynamic staff retreats, innovative conferences, and educational symposiums for nonprofits and universities throughout the US. Clients include CUAV, Foundation for Sustainable Development, Counterpart International, Thousand Currents, UC Berkeley Principal Leadership Institute, Duquesne University, PLAN International, SF Foundation, CauseLabs, Opportunity Collaboration, 350.org, World Trust, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Melton Foundation and New England BioLabs

Oakland, Ca

2021 - DEI consultant and trainer for UC-wide Equity-centered Climate Resilience and Adaptation Planning Project2021 - Lead designer and facilitator of Nor Cal Resilience Network Leadership Training Program2020 - 2021 - DEI consultant and trainer with Amazon Watch and Immigration Institute of the Bay Area2019 - present: DEI Consultant and Leadership Trainer with UC Berkeley Division of Student Affairs and Public Service Center2019 - present: Lead Training Partner with UCI Community Resilience Projects2018- Executive Coach and Facilitator with Spiral UP! Women's Leadership Program2018 - Curriculum designer and facilitator for the Student Leadership Institute for Climate Resilience with the faculty and staff of all UC campuses 2018 - 2019: DEI Consultant and Trainer for the Center for Biological Diversity 2018-2019 Collective Emergence and Diverse Legacies - intensive 3 month workshops series using somatic and arts-based practices to build bridges of belonging and solidarity2018-present Thrive East Bay Network - Founding member, host, program designer and facilitator2012 consultant and trainer with the Domestic Violence Law Center to strengthen organizational culture and systems 2010 - 2016 Theatre of the Oppressed and Mindfulness workshop series2010 White Noise workshop series: Examining the intersection of white privilege and sexism2003 – 2005 ‘Confronting Racism Seminar’” at UC Berkeley, sponsored by the Social Welfare Department and YWCA Racial Justice Program.2002: Anti-Racism trainings for YWCA Racial Justice Program, First Congregational Church, Prescott College of AZ, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, New College of California, the Moving On Center and Spirit Rock-sponsored Dharma and Deep Ecology course.2001 ‘Revolution Starts from Within: Exploring the Heart of Social Change’ 4-week course in developing resources for sustainable anti-racism activism

San Jose, Ca

In this role, I worked with local stakeholders to support community engagement, preserve cultural traditions, and build a vibrant immigrant community. I supervised a staff and managed community volunteers to successfully implement an innovative leadership and civic engagement program using theater, community organizing and cultural events. I completed program management functions such as data monitoring and evaluation, monthly and annual reporting, and organizational and board development planning. I developed and facilitated staff and community training on ecological justice analysis, community organizing, storytelling techniques, and trauma resiliency practices. I coordinated several cultural programming including an eight-week leadership school for immigrant parents aimed at teaching techniques to support each other while taking action on health, education, and immigration reform and a community theater troupe with immigrant women who wrote original plays based on real-life stories that addressed domestic violence, immigration reform, healthcare, early childhood education, the ecological crisis, and peaceful alternatives to gangs.

San Francisco Bay Area

Founded and directed a multicultural women’s oral history and theater project, investigating the importance of our ancestral legacies in developing relationships of solidarity and healing the divisions of race, class and gender.Bone Songs: Co-produced and performed in a 2-hour original theater production with 13 diverse women at Oakland Box Theater, SOMARTS Cultural Center of SF, First Congregational Church in Oakland, Exit Theater, and City College of San Francisco.Tapestry: Co-produced and performed in an original theater production with 8 diverse women at New College and JCC East Bay.Honoring the Bones: a multicultural women’s collective that designed and facilitated one-day and 8-week autobiographical and theater workshops for women

Master’S Degree, International Relations: Peace, Conflict And Security Studies

Activities and Societies: Honduras Human Rights Accompaniment and Food Sovereignty Delegation to collect first-hand accounts of human.

Master'S Degree, Education: Equity And Social Justice Concentration

Activities and Societies: Graduate Thesis: The Herstories Project - Feminist Oral History and Community Theater as Liberatory.

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology