Sima Savdharia
Cohort 4 Alum - 2024-2025

Sima Savdharia is a Kingian Nonviolence trainer, restorative justice practitioner, conflict coach, and certified mediator with extensive experience in conflict de-escalation, facilitation, and community organizing. A former classroom educator, she brings a deep understanding of human connection, accountability, and healing-centered engagement to her work.

Sima is the founder of Mediation and Healing Justice, a consultancy that supports community-based organizations and individuals throughout the Bay Area. Through this work, she facilitates accountability processes and provides trainings on conflict de-escalation and harm prevention, helping communities build interdependence outside of punitive legal systems.

Her earlier experiences include migrant advocacy along the U.S.-Mexico border and serving as a cultural liaison in Honduras, which deeply inform her anti-colonial perspective. Fluent in Gujarati and Spanish, Sima is able to connect with and support a wide range of communities.

As an independent contractor, she collaborates with The Ahimsa Collective, where she facilitates Victim Offender Dialogues and leads the Restorative Justice in Community program. She also works with Peer Advocates, partnering with city agencies to strengthen community-based justice initiatives. Her past clients include Redwood City Social Services, The Social Justice Learning Institute, and Senior Disability Action.

Sima holds a Master’s in Urban Education and Social Justice from the University of San Francisco and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz. She is also an alumna of the East Bay Meditation Center’s Practice in Transformative Action program and School of Unity and Liberation’s training program.