Recent Accomplishments

Since early 2021, we have expanded our staff, created new programs, and developed more teaching tools to reach a broader audience.

As the public health conditions from COVID-19 began to improve in 2021, we continued to grow and adapt to the changing times. A few of our accomplishments since January 2021 are listed below:

• Presented Bringing Negotiation Training to Underserved Communities at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program's Fall 2022 Research Seminar Series on Intersectional Perspectives on Gender & Negotiation

• Hired a Program and Communications Coordinator to manage our remote and onsite programming and ramp up our marketing and community engagement efforts, and a Staff Instructor to teach and manage a portfolio of our programs

• Developed customized professional development workshops for several of our community partners, including for violence interrupters working with Father Factor, through which we offered strategies they can use to address simmering community conflicts before they escalate into violence

• Created and published multiple editions of ‘The Negotiator Speaks,’ our Ambassador-led newsletter

• Developed a customizable refresher course focused on workplace-related scenarios for our program participants who request additional support after completing our course

• Initiated a long-term evaluation process to determine how participants use negotiation strategies when they are at least six months past taking our program

• Streamlined our lesson plans to make them more accessible to our volunteer instructors and better aligned with best practices in educational pedagogy

• Developed new role plays and teaching materials, including a graphic guide to help participants visualize and internalize the negotiation process more tangibly

• Participated in a competitive process and were chosen to take part in a Capacity Building Training Project sponsored by the DC Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG)