PVPI Staff

Jonathan Berry
Executive Director

Jonathan 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, men’s violence prevention, prejudice reduction and community building, ally building, sexual health, and performance education.  While a student at Western Washington University, Mr. Berry received extensive training in the areas of violence prevention, diversity and community building, performance education, and sexual health and risk reduction counseling, while working with Prevention and Wellness Services in the Lifestyle Advisor Program, a peer health education program.  During his time as a Lifestyle Advisor he was a founding member of Western Men Against Violence, an organization whose goals are to prevent violence in the community, especially sexual assault and violence against women.  During the five years as a member of WMAV, Mr. Berry was responsible for developing and facilitating programs and planning special events.  He is a state registered sexual health counselor, and served as an HIV Tester/Risk Reduction Counselor.  Also as a Lifestyle Advisor, he was a member of the peer-based, performance health education troupe, Will Act for Change, where he spent a year as a student coordinator.  As a student coordinator he was responsible for training and supervising Will Act for Change.  During his last year in the program, he was selected as a Student Core Staff Member of Prevention and Wellness Services, and teaching staff for course Health Education 250, the 5-credit course required for entry into the Lifestyle Advisor Program.  Throughout his tenure as a Lifestyle Advisor, Mr. Berry helped to write, implement, and facilitate numerous violence prevention programs, ally building programs, and prejudice reeducation and community building programs.

Mr. Berry is also employed as a Managing Director of Northwest Violence Prevention Solutions.  He is the director of the NVPS’s School of Performance Education, and is the author of its training program.  He has developed and implemented many of the other programs offered by the NVPS, including programs for educational, corporate, and religious communities.  He has implemented and supervises performance education troupes at multiple high schools in the state of Washington. 

Mr. Berry is a certified trainer for the National Coalition Building Institute, and international organization dedicated to reducing prejudice and building stronger communities.