After teaching mathematics for ten years, Ron Claassen (M.A. M.Div. D.Min.) founded the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program in Fresno, the first in California. Along with an active mediation practice, he is a professor at Fresno Pacific University and the co-founder (1990) and director of its Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. He was the recipient of the 2007 Carl and Esther Robinson Outstanding Advocate for the Common Good Award. Roxanne Claassen, teacher, mentor teacher and peer mediation coordinator with elementary and middle school experience and a Master's Degree in Conflict