The Mostly Real Estate Podcast, with Declan Spring
Conversations with East Bay real estate agents, creatives, and community voices shaping today’s local market.
The Mostly Real Estate Podcast with Declan Spring spotlights the people shaping East Bay real estate — top producers, rising stars, and agents known for creative marketing or unique insight. Each conversation explores the craft, challenges, and character of this dynamic market.
Produced by Declan Spring and Denitsa Shopova, founders of The Home Factor, a Berkeley-based real-estate and creative-media team, the show celebrates collaboration, storytelling, and community across the East Bay.
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The Mostly Real Estate Podcast, with Declan Spring
#26 Shawn Dunning - Candidate for Mayor of Richmond
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Shawn Dunning is a candidate for mayor in the City of Richmond, CA. Shawn is the former chief operations officer of organizational development company Adventure Associates, Inc. During his tenure there, Shawn developed and facilitated leadership, team development, and conflict resolution programs for corporate, government, and nonprofit groups throughout the United States. Earlier in his career, he directed the Leadership Wisdom Initiative and also founded the Leadership & Training division for the international conflict transformation organization Search for Common Ground. Working from Washington D.C. and Jerusalem, Shawn led projects in the United States, the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, and Southeast Asia that developed the capacity of emerging and elite political and civil society leaders to lead from a basis of common ground principles.
Shawn is also an avid community organizer and volunteer, having served on nonprofit boards. He studied speech communication and psychology as an undergraduate at Cal Poly and holds a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, where he developed foundational theory and practice for Adventure-Based Conflict Resolution.
Learn more about Shawn's professional experience at shawnmdunning.com and on his LinkedIn profile.