Advisor
Pamela Cysner, recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Advising Award
Pamela R. Cysner
Pamela Cysner is an Advisor at UCLA’s Center for Student Programming Office and whose realm of responsibilities includes program and leadership development, organizational management and staff/volunteer training for approximately 200 campus organizations. As part of her responsibilities she also serves as the Coordinator of a Leadership Development workshop series for UCLA’s student leadership. She is an alumnus of UCLA. She is also a partner in the firm Diverse City Consulting which provides training, facilitation and consultation services in a number of areas including conflict resolution/mediation, cross cultural communication, leadership development, anger management and team building. Pamela has been involved with a wide variety of community-based programs and projects including:
§ Training Coordinator, Alternatives to Violence Project, Inglewood and Hollywood, CA
A program geared to leadership development and youth empowerment (1995 to present).
§ Volunteer Facilitator and Coordinator, Youth Mentors, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Facilitates dialogue sessions for incarcerated youth at Eastlake Juvenile Hall (1998 to present).
§ Athlete Coordinator, Westside Special Olympics, Santa Monica, CA
A sports and competition program for children and adults with mental retardation (1990 to present).
§ Member, Student Attendance Review Board, Inglewood Unified School District, Inglewood, CA
Provides educational and resource assistance to students and families to meet CA student attendance requirements (2002 to present).
§ Training Specialist, Anti-Defamation League "A World of Difference" Institute,
Campus of Difference and A Workplace of Difference Institutes
Provides trainings to enhance inter-group relations in issues such as prejudice and discrimination based on race, religion, sexual
orientation, ethnicity, gender, age and ability (2002 to present).
§ Trainer/Facilitator, UCLA Bruin Leaders Project
A certified program for UCLA undergraduate and graduate students using the Social Change Model of Leadership theory developed by
UCLA's Higher Education research Institute (2002 to present).
§ Facilitator/Trainer, UCLA's Intergroup Relations Peer Training Program
A program designed to engage campus constituents to engage in dialogue on current issues dealing with diversity and intergroup
relations (2009 to present).
§ Mediator, Trainer, UCLA Conflict Mediation Program
Pamela Cysner is an Advisor at UCLA’s Center for Student Programming Office and whose realm of responsibilities includes program and leadership development, organizational management and staff/volunteer training for approximately 200 campus organizations. As part of her responsibilities she also serves as the Coordinator of a Leadership Development workshop series for UCLA’s student leadership. She is an alumnus of UCLA. She is also a partner in the firm Diverse City Consulting which provides training, facilitation and consultation services in a number of areas including conflict resolution/mediation, cross cultural communication, leadership development, anger management and team building. Pamela has been involved with a wide variety of community-based programs and projects including:
§ Training Coordinator, Alternatives to Violence Project, Inglewood and Hollywood, CA
A program geared to leadership development and youth empowerment (1995 to present).
§ Volunteer Facilitator and Coordinator, Youth Mentors, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Facilitates dialogue sessions for incarcerated youth at Eastlake Juvenile Hall (1998 to present).
§ Athlete Coordinator, Westside Special Olympics, Santa Monica, CA
A sports and competition program for children and adults with mental retardation (1990 to present).
§ Member, Student Attendance Review Board, Inglewood Unified School District, Inglewood, CA
Provides educational and resource assistance to students and families to meet CA student attendance requirements (2002 to present).
§ Training Specialist, Anti-Defamation League "A World of Difference" Institute,
Campus of Difference and A Workplace of Difference Institutes
Provides trainings to enhance inter-group relations in issues such as prejudice and discrimination based on race, religion, sexual
orientation, ethnicity, gender, age and ability (2002 to present).
§ Trainer/Facilitator, UCLA Bruin Leaders Project
A certified program for UCLA undergraduate and graduate students using the Social Change Model of Leadership theory developed by
UCLA's Higher Education research Institute (2002 to present).
§ Facilitator/Trainer, UCLA's Intergroup Relations Peer Training Program
A program designed to engage campus constituents to engage in dialogue on current issues dealing with diversity and intergroup
relations (2009 to present).
§ Mediator, Trainer, UCLA Conflict Mediation Program