Beth Roy

Trained as a sociologist at University of California, Berkeley, Beth Roy long taught there in the Peace and Conflict Studies program. She is a mediator working with organizations and communities confronting challenges to diversity, and she teaches in workshop format ways to talk and listen across identity boundaries. Her work with community groups on building policies, skills, and relationships to enhance culturally inclusive forms of collaborative social justice work has involved arts, entertainment, political, and other organizations. She has facilitated personal support and problem-solving groups for almost fifty years.

Dr. Roy has published many volumes on identity-involved conflict. Her published works include The Bernal Story: Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community, Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict and 41 Shots…and Counting: What Amado Diallo Teaches Us about Policing, Race, and Justice. She is a co-founder of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute and co-edited a forthcoming collaborative book, Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: How Conflict Resolution Can Dismantle Its Own Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)