Suzanne Koebler
Executive Director
Suzanne has been working in public and non-profit administration since 1995. Prior to joining CRC, Suzanne worked as an analyst for the County Health Services Agency, as Executive Director of Mental Health Client Action Network, and as a grant consultant at Cabrillo College. She trained with CRC as a Community Mediator in Spring of 2008. Suzanne divides her time between program management, administration and outreach.
Vicki Assegued, M.A.
Director of Restorative Justice Programs
Vicki has a Master’s degree in Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution and is a Certified Anger Management Provider. She has been developing and directing programs at CRC for the past 10 years in collaboration with the Santa Cruz County Probation Department and other governmental and non-profit organizations. Vicki is active in mediation, group facilitation and preparing and presenting trainings in the Victim Offender Dialogue Process, Family Conferencing/Reentry Programs, Parent Teen Mediation, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution and Anger Management. She was the recipient of the 2009 Community Partner of the Year Award from Santa Cruz County Probation for her Restorative Justice work in collaboration with their Department.
Olga Ramirez Noffsinger
R5 Reentry Program Coordinator
Olga is an experienced mediator and facilitator of Restorative Justice processes in both the monolingual Spanish and English speaking communities. Along with her position at CRC, she is a court mediator with the Office of Human Relations in Santa Clara County and is a Spanish Interpreter and Translator at Conduit Language. She formerly worked as a criminal defense investigator for the Santa Cruz Public Defenders Office and as a mental health case manager for Community Solutions where she worked with patients that suffered from severe mental illness. Olga was also a hotline crisis counselor, a Spanish support group facilitator, and a legal and immigration advocate for victims of domestic violence while working for Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence.
Bonnie Primbsch
Coordinator of Court, Community, and Workplace Mediation Programs
Bonnie received her first mediation training with Santa Clara County's Office of Human Relations. She parlayed her new skills into a position at a local company facilitating meetings among management, and did freelance mediation for community groups and media organizations. As Public Affairs Producer for KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, Bonnie arranged interviews about the Conflict Resolution Center's Victim-Offender Dialogue Program and other local restorative justice initiatives. She trained with CRC in March 2005 and served as a volunteer in CRC's Community and Parent-Teen Mediation Programs until joining the staff in August 2007. Her position was made possible by a partnership with the Santa Cruz County court system, in which people thinking of litigating are encouraged to try mediation instead.
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