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The
following are biographies of the many speakers featured at this year’s EPP
Conference. For a list of all attendees please click
here.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Lynn Scarlett, Acting Secretary, Daniel Yankelovich, Founder and Chairman, Viewpoint Learning Professor
Yankelovich established the public opinion research firm of Yankelovich,
Skelly and White, and later DYG, Inc. He also founded “The New York
Times/Yankelovich Poll”, which subsequently merged with the CBS Poll. He is a
director emeritus of CBS, Inc, Loral Space and Communications, Inc., Meredith
Corporation, Arkla, Reliance, and US West. Yankelovich was research professor
of psychology at Press)
“Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World”
(Syracuse University Press, 1991) and “The Magic of Dialogue” (Simon and
Schuster, 1999) and numerous essays. In 1995 he was awarded the prestigious
Helen Dinerman Award by the World Association of Public Opinion Research
(WAPOR). John Forester, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Francisco Ingouville, International Mediator Francisco
Ingouville has worked as a mediator in Susan Collin Marks, Executive Vice President, Search for Common Ground Raymond Shonholtz, President and Founder, Partners for Democratic Change Raymond
Shonholtz, J.D., is the Founder and President of Partners for Democratic
Change (Partners), an international organization established in 1989
committed to building sustainable local capacity to advance civil society and
a culture of change and conflict management worldwide. Partners has established 14 national
Centers in Central and Eastern Europe, South East Europe, the South Caucasus,
Latin America, and the Middle East, and is one of largest global conflict
management organizations working in over 35 countries. In addition to overseeing Partners' New
Center Development, Corporate Engagement Initiative and Training and
Education Program, Mr. Shonholtz is on the Executive Committee of Partners
for Democratic Change International, an International Association of the
Partners' Centers incorporated in From 1976
through 1988, Mr. Shonholtz founded and served as President of the Community Board
Program, one of the first community mediation initiatives in the Mr.
Shonholtz received his law degree at UC Berkeley and practiced criminal and
civil law for several years before creating Community Boards. He has an extensive background in legal
practice, education, and policy, and has written extensively on the subject
of mediating systems, conflict resolution models, and the positive function
of conflict in democratic society. Mr.
Shonholtz is the recipient of several awards and fellowships and presently
serves on the Council on Foreign Relations, the Editorial Board of Consensus,
a publication of the Harvard University Program on Negotiations, and on the
National Advisors Board of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. Gail Bingham,
President, RESOLVE, Inc. Kirk Emerson, Director of the U.S. Institute for Environmental
Conflict Resolution Kirk
Emerson has been the Director of the U.S. Institute for Environmental
Conflict Resolution (U.S. Institute) of the Morris K. Udall Foundation since
its inception in 1998. In its role as an independent federal institution, the
U.S. Institute promotes effective use of environmental conflict resolution
and collaborative problem solving (ECR) through case assistance, training and
leadership. The U.S. Institute staff
partners with other federal and state programs and draws on the expertise of
more than 250 experienced ECR professionals on its national roster. Over the
years, Dr. Emerson's work has focused on interagency and intergovernmental
natural resource conflicts. Most recently,
she has been working on developing national ECR policy, dovetailing ECR with
the objectives of the National Environmental Policy Act, and assessing ECR
outcomes and cost effectiveness. Previously, Dr. Emerson coordinated the ECR
program at The University of Arizona's Michael Lesnick, Founder and Senior Partner, the Meridian Institute Alice
Shorett, Founder and President, Triangle Associates, Inc., Susan
Carpenter, Mediator,
trainer and writer in private practice Don Edwards, President and CEO, Don Edwards and Associates Daniel Kemmis, Senior Fellow, Center for the
Robert
Bordone, Thaddeus
R. Beal Lecturer on Law and Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation
Research Project. Robert
A. Baruch Bush, Rains
Distinguished Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution Law at John
Folk-Williams, Managing
Senior Mediator, Center for Collaborative Policy, Archon
Fung, Associate Professor of Public Policy, The Barbara Gray, Professor of
Organizational Behavior and Director, Center for Research in Conflict and
Negotiation, The Daniel Kemmis, Senior Fellow, Center for the Deborah
Kolb, Deloitte
Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership and Faculty Affiliate,
Center for Gender in Organizations, Deborah M. Kolb is the former Executive Director of the
Program on Negotiation at Robert McKersie, Professor
Emeritus of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bruce Patton, Founder
and Director, Vantage Partners Daniel Shapiro, Associate
Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project Mr. Shapiro is co-author with Roger Fisher of Beyond
Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate, which has been on a number of
best-selling lists and won the 2005 CPR Award for Excellence in ADR
(Outstanding Book Category). Dr. Shapiro teaches negotiation at Michael Wheeler, Co-Director,
Dispute Resolution Program, Program on Negotiation, BREAKOUT PRESENTERS Tanya Denckla Cobb, Mediator
and Facilitator in environmental public policy Ms. Cobb is a Senior Associate at the Institute for
Environmental Negotiation, Cindy Cook, Founder
and Principal, Adamant Accord Cindy Cook is an environmental mediator and facilitator
and the principal of Adamant Accord, Inc. Cindy graduated from Yale, teaches
at several policy dialogues regarding wetlands regulation,
childhood lead poisoning prevention and forest tract preservation, as well as
discussions regarding a Superfund cleanup and the construction and management
of on-site wastewater treatment systems. She brings warmth, intelligence and
a sense of humor to her work, and has been working in the field for far
longer than she cares to admit. Henrietta Davis, Councilor,
Frank Dukes, Director,
Institute for Environmental Negotiation, Dr. Dukes combines the practice of designing dispute
resolution and public participation processes, mediation and facilitation, strategic
planning, training, and teaching, in the graduate program of the Department
of Urban and Environmental Planning. He is co-founder and faculty for the
Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, co-founder of the
Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium, author of Resolving
Public Conflict:Transforming Community and Governance and co-author of
Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution: Tools for Powerful Groups
and Communities. Research and writing focus upon the transformative
uses of conflict resolution in the community and public policy arena and
democratic governance at local, state, and federal levels. Michael Elliott, Associate
Professor of City and Regional Planning and Public Policy, Georgia Institute
of Technology Michael Elliot specializes in public policy dispute
resolution and environmental management. Dr. Elliot also serves as a
Principal of the Southeast Negotiation Network and an associate with the
Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, where he mediates and
facilitates public policy consensus building processes, designs dispute
management systems, and conducts research in policy implementation and
conflict management. These activities have focused on resolving disputes over
solid and hazardous waste, siting and managing locally unwanted facilities,
risk management policy, and growth management. Nationally, he has worked with
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Army Environmental
Policy Institute, the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality, and the New York
Academy of Science. Internationally, he also provides dispute resolution
training and process consultations for environmental management specialists from
Nelson Espinal-Báez, Associate
MIT - Harvard Public Disputes Program at Attorney at Law, Mediator, Law Professor and Negotiation
Consultant; Founder of the Law Firm N. A. Espinal Báez & Associates and
Cambridge International Consulting, Llc., a negotiation and strategic
decision making firm, with offices in Santo Domingo, Venezuela and
Perú. He is also founder and president of Fundación Los Seres Sol,
Inc., a non-for-profit institution that works in the poor neighborhoods of
the Patrick Field, Managing
Director at Consensus Building Institute Managing Director at Consensus Building Institute,
Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Senior
Fellow, Janet D. Fiero, Ph.D.
Senior Associate, AmericaSpeaks She is currently assigned to Voices and Choices, an
unprecedented civic initiative that will involve tens of thousands of
citizens and leaders across Elena
Gonzalez, Director,
Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution, Office of the
Secretary of the Interior Ann
Gosline, Founding
Partner of Gosline & Reitman Gosline & Reitman is a mediation, facilitation, training and
consulting practice – Ms. Gosline became a full-time ADR practitioner in 1984
after practicing law in the public and private sectors. She has
extensive experience in mediation and facilitation of multi-party processes
concerning health care system reform and natural resource policy, including
processes addressing land and water use and protection, air quality,
transportation planning, fisheries, forestry and agricultural practices, and
other public policy issues. Ms. Gosline served as co-chair of SPIDR's
Committee that developed Guidelines for Integrated Conflict Management
Systems for organizations. She also mediates civil disputes and is a
member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. She serves on the Board
of the Public Conversations Project. She is a frequent lecturer and
trainer in conflict management and resolution and has taught ADR at the
University of Maine School of Law. Ms. Gosline received a B.A. in Asian
history from William
Hall, Conflict
Resolution Specialist, Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center, William
Hall, Conflict Resolution Specialist, Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Founder and Executive Director, Global Community
Initiatives Global
Community Initiatives, a nonprofit organization dedicated
to sustainable community development with offices in Mara Hernandez, PhD Candidate at Sloan, MIT and Director of the Center for Civic Collaboration Mara
Hernandez specializes in negotiation and conflict resolution. She has also
pioneered teaching negotiations and third party intervention in Maggie Herzig, Senior Associate and Co-founder of the Public
Conversations Project Maggie
Herzig is co-author with Laura Chasin of PCP’s new book: Fostering Dialogue
Across Divides: A Nuts and Bolts Guide from the Public Conversations
Project. Maggie has facilitated dialogues on a range of topics
including abortion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and controversies over
forest management. Much of Maggie’s work has focused on interfaith
dialogue, especially on relationship building between Muslims and
non-Muslims. Before Herman Karl, USGS Scientist and Co-Director, MIT-USGS Science
Impact Collaborative, MIT Herman
Karl explores the changing role of science, research, and scientists in
contemporary society. He focuses his research on analyzing the use of
scientific information and the role of scientists in collaborative approaches
to natural resources and ecosystems-based management, and environmental
planning and policymaking, and the institutional and societal transformations
that are necessary for science to be more effectively used in the evolving
models of participatory, deliberative governance and community-based
ecosystem stewardship. Among his numerous publications is the book Beyond
the Pamela
Kennedy has been Mayor of Kalispell, Mary Jo
Larson Mary Jo Larson is an international practitioner
and scholar with over 15 years experience in the fields of conservation
education, intercultural learning, environmental conflict management,
peacebuilding and sustainable development. Her experience includes
conservation and leadership programs in Over the
last twelve years, Matt Leighninger has worked with citizen involvement
efforts in over 100 communities, in 40 states and two Canadian provinces;
roughly 25,000 people have taken part in those projects. Most of this work
was supported by the Bill Lennertz, AIA, NCI Charrette Facilitator He is a
practicing New Urbanist. First as Director of the Duany Plater-Zyberk &
Company (DPZ) Rose Martinez, Director, Masahiro
Matsuura, Ph.D.
Candidate, Environmental Policy Group, MIT He
finished his MCP at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, then
worked for Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. as a policy analyst. His Ph.D.
defense is scheduled for this summer. He is interested in how
consensus-building techniques can be "localized" in different parts
of the world, especially in Sean Nolon, Director, He trains
local officials, environmentalists, and developers in land use law and
consensus building techniques; provides strategic assistance to
inter-municipal councils; and mediates land use disputes. He has taught a law
school seminar in conflict resolution and land use law and coordinates the
Land Use Conflicts Externship at Pace. He is a Director-at-Large of the
Westchester Municipal Planning Federation, and Associate Director of the
Westchester County Soil and Water Conservation District. He is also a
certified mediator and arbitrator in Patrice
O'Neill, Executive Producer, The Working Group O'Neill
has produced successful national series on PBS for fifteen years. She
is co-founder of The Working Group (www.theworkinggroup.org), a non
profit media company that uses television, internet and organizing to
encourage community dialogue and civic engagement. TWG's 1995 story of
how the town of Suzanne
Orenstein, Public Policy Mediator She has
been a public policy mediator and facilitator for over twenty years. She
has mediated over forty major cases, conducted more than fifty training
courses, and managed rosters of mediators. She has mediated
negotiations over energy regulations, controversial facilities and land use,
global warming policies, pesticide impacts, Superfund cleanups, endangered
species, marine mammals, and hazardous waste regulations. She has
facilitated meetings for strategic planning, visioning, partnering, and
agenda setting purposes, as well as to foster dialogue on controversial issues
like dioxin policy, fishing regulations, water quality issues, and forest
management planning. She is known for ensuring productive communication
among parties with disparate negotiation experiences and views, and for
helping stakeholder groups understand, discuss, and make decisions about
highly technical topics. Ms. Orenstein is the former Vice President of
RESOLVE, a national environmental dispute resolution organization, and is
currently in private practice in Evan
Paul,
Program Associate, AmericaSpeaks He plays
a leadership role in AmericaSpeaks' 21st Century Town Meeting and Civic
Engagement Consulting projects. He specializes in project management and has
been developing new projects on various environmental and land use issues. He
joined the AmericaSpeaks team in May 2005. Since then, he has served as the
assistant producer for AmericaSpeaks' role in the kickoff meeting of the
Clinton Global Initiative in New York City; project manager for a national
discussion on health care in the United Kingdom; and project manager for the
Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference in New Orleans with the American
Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association. He is
developing a variety of other projects including city and regional discussions
on energy policy and a citizen engagement strategy for gulf coast hurricane
recovery. He has been a campaign director for Forest Ethics, an international
organization that supports forest communities in the development of
conservation-based economies. He earned his B.A. in Political Science at the Jennifer
Peyser, Facilitator, RESOLVE, Ms.
Peyser assists clients and stakeholders with convening, facilitation, and
mediation of multi-party policy dialogues and consensus processes. She
specializes in processes dealing with the highly technical scientific and
regulatory questions involved in environmental policy making. Her project
experience includes natural resources cases, such as fisheries and alternative
energy, and public health cases such as drinking water, endocrine disruptors,
and biotechnology. Ms. Peyser is also an affiliate and past project manager
of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, and a former graduate associate
at the Consensus Building Institute. She earned her master's degree in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, Environmental Policy Group, where she completed her thesis on joint
fact finding and public involvement in natural resource management
decision-making. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of
Arts in French from Susan
Podziba, Principal and Public Policy Mediator, Susan Podziba &
Associates Ms.
Podziba is known for designing processes to fit the unique characteristics of
given conflicts. Since 1984, she has mediated cases involving international
relations, governance, environmental disputes, land use and development
decisions, transportation planning, public health, worker safety, and
education policy. She has served as a visiting lecturer and lecturer at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and
Planning and a faculty associate of the Program On Negotiation at
Dr.
Raab is an experienced mediator, facilitator, consultant, and trainer. He is
a national leader in applying consensus-building processes to energy,
environmental, and regulatory issues. He authored a seminal book, Using Consensus
Building to Improve Utility Regulation (ACEEE: Washington, D.C.) and is on
both the mediation and arbitration panels for the Pennsylvania-New
Jersey-Maryland Power Pool, the mediation panel of the Mid-Continent Area
Power Pool, and on the dispute resolution rosters of the US Environmental
Protection Agency and the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
Prior to starting Raab Associates, Dr. Raab was the assistant director of the
Electric Power Division at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
He has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Energy and
Environmental Policy, and Resource Economics), an M.S. from Stanford
University's Civil Engineering Department (Infrastructure Planning and
Management), and an A.B. (distinction) in Social Sciences also from Stanford.
He has taught courses at the Susan
Raines, Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Raye
Rawls, Mediator, Arbitrator, Trainer Jonathan
W. Reitman, Founding Partner, Gosline & Reitman Mr.
Reitman is a mediation, facilitation, training and consulting practice,
practiced law for 12 years before becoming a full-time ADR practitioner in
1990. He is a frequent lecturer and author on negotiation, conflict
resolution and mediation. He has trained participants from 15 different
countries on these topics in Ric
Richardson, Professor of Community and Regional Planning, Mr.
Richardson runs a practice in initiating collaborative environmental and
natural resources planning and resolving land use disputes. Ric works with
citizens, environmental activists, state and federal agencies and local
leaders to design and carry out assisted negotiations in water, land use, and
local development initiatives. He has worked with the BLM, U S Fish and
Wildlife Service, the New Mexico Governor’s cabinet, municipalities and
non-profit organizations to provide training in collaborative planning and
consensus building strategies. Professor Richardson is a senior associate at
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