Regional Director, North America
Pierre has B.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard College and M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. His doctorate in public health (DrPH) is from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Pierre joined the CPI team in 2023.
Pierre is the author of 40+ articles and contributor to several books. Originally from Peru, Pierre immigrated to the United States with his family in 1998 and remained an undocumented immigrant for 14 years until he received DACA in 2012. He lives with his husband in Washington, DC.
Pierre loves all of the work we do at CPI, especially when we can see a direct impact and improvement for people’s lives in the communities with whom we work.
Some of Pierre’s works include:
Berastain, Pierre. “Culturally Specific Approaches to Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention & Response” in Facing Campus Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Head-On: A Guide to Prevention, Healing, and Recovery. American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Washington, DC. 2023. Print.
Berastain, Pierre. “Trump’s Election and Fear” in Trumpism: The Politics of Gender in a Post-Propitious America. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. London, UK. 2018. Print.
Berastain, Pierre. “Never Again Would I Have to Choose between Rice and Toilet Paper.” The Country I Call Home: Stories of Growing up a Citizen in Every Way but One. Reno, NV: University of Nevada, 2015. Print.
Berastain, Pierre. “Domestic Violence in LGBT Communities.” Safe Zones: Training Allies of LGBTQIA Young Adults. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Group, 2016. Print.
Berastain, Pierre. “Restorative Justice: Re-storying What Happened in Boston.” Resolution. Restorative Justice Council, London, UK. 2013. Print.