Essential Partners
Scott Silk is an experienced educator and community leader, currently serving as the Founder of Olive Branch Solutions since June 2023, focusing on fostering understanding and collaboration within diverse communities. With a longstanding tenure at Pacific Ridge School since August 2007, Scott has held the position of Teacher and served as the History and Social Sciences Department Chair from 2019 to 2023. Additionally, Scott is an Associate at Essential Partners, which promotes relationship-building across differences, and the Founder of the California Program for Hands of Peace, empowering youth from American, Israeli, and Palestinian backgrounds. Scott holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Michigan, a Master of Education from DePaul University, and a Doctor of Law from the University of Denver.
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Essential Partners
Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. EP’s proven approach helps people live and work better together. Through richer, healthier, more inclusive dialogue, people strengthen relationships while gaining new insight into themselves and each other as well as the problems they face together. The strength of relationships rooted in trust and mutual understanding empowers people to address the most pressing challenges—from partisan polarization and political dysfunction to interfaith conflicts and abortion access—without compromising their deepest values or identities.