PVPI Staff

Christopher Berry
Managing Director

Christopher Berry is a nationally recognized expert in preventing bullying, harassment, and related violence through ally building techniques.  His background includes training and experience in sexual assault prevention and response, men’s violence prevention, prejudice reduction and community building, ally building, relational violence issues, grief and loss, and gender and sexual identity issues.  Rev. Berry served as a Core Staff Member of Prevention and Wellness Services at Western Washington University, on a volunteer basis, for over 10 years.  During this time, he was the founding staff advisor of Men Against Rape, a sexual assault prevention program for college men, and was responsible for training and supervision of the peer health educators in this group.  He was the founding staff advisor for Western Men Against Violence, a program that has received grant funding through the Department of Justice’s Ending Violence Against Women grant, and was the author of the original training program used to train the peer educators.  He was also responsible for teaching the Grief and Loss courses for Health Education 250 and the contact professional for the residential advisors.  He was a founding member of the Campus Community Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Related Violence. 

Rev. Berry is also employed as a Managing Director of Northwest Violence Prevention Solutions where he is the director of NVPS's programs for Religious Communities.  He is a nationally recognized author of Biblical studies in violence prevention.  Rev. Berry is an ordained Lutheran Pastor, and is currently serving as the Lutheran Campus Pastor at Western Washington University.

Rev. Berry is a certified trainer for the National Coalition Building Institute, an international organization dedicated to reducing prejudice and building stronger communities.  He is also a certified trainer and contributing author for the US Department of Justice’s Preventing Domestic Violence in Faith and Religious Communities program.   He has recently completed writing and has begun implementation of a US Department of Justice program on Recognizing and Responding to Relational Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults.