Board of Directors
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| Lynn H. Cole, President Tampa, Florida, USA |
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Lynn Cole is a dispute resolution professional with experience in all aspects of ADR, including mediation and arbitration. She has served as a Special Master, an SEC receiver, a neutral evaluator and settlement counsel. She is a Florida-certified mediator trained in Harvard Law School Program of Mediation. As an ADR specialist with USAID/ABA assigned to Jordan, she assisted in implementing the first Mediation Court Pilot Program in Arab Middle East. She has assisted the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice... Read More
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| Kenneth Cloke, Past President, Santa Monica, California, USA |
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Kenneth Cloke is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, consultant, and trainer specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes, and in designing preventative conflict resolution systems for organizations... Read More
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| Prabha Sankaranarayan, Treasurer, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Prabha Sankaranarayan is a developmental specialist and mediator with extensive experience as a child and family therapist. A partner at Snyder & Sankar Associates, Prabha has spent the last fifteen years working with start-up, growing and changing non-profit organizations. Skilled in non-profit management, strategic planning, facilitation, collaboration and community organization, her practice includes consultations for national organizations, statewide coalitions... Read More |
| Judith Gilmore, Secretary,Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA |
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Judith Gilmore is currently a consultant in the area of human trafficking, a child protection mediator for the Washington, D.C. Superior Court, a small claims mediator for the Maryland District Court, and a community mediator for the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County. Prior to retiring from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2006, Judith. Gilmore was director of the Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation - American Schools and Hospitals Abroad. Read More
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| Dave Joseph, Executive Committee, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA |
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Dave Joseph, MSW, is Vice-President, Program of the Public Conversations Project and has worked there since 2005. An experienced trainer, consultant, mediator and dialogue practitioner, he has worked with a broad cross-section of non-profits. As a young adult, Dave served as a Peace Corp Volunteer in Niger, an event that he describes as a life changing experience that taught him invaluable lessons about communication and culture. Read More |
| Jack Boyson, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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Jack Boyson is Programs Director in the Education and Employment Units of the International Youth Foundation located in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2004 he co-developed, pilot tested, and operationalized a 60 lesson life and employability curriculum entitled Passport to Success targeting disadvantaged youth, ages 14-24, which includes lessons dealing with managing strong emotions, assertiveness, refusal skills, stressful situations, problem solving, managing conflict, reducing intimidation and bullying... Read More
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| Nan Waller Burnett, Golden, Colorado, USA |
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Nan Waller Burnett, MA is a high conflict mediator and has served in over 1,300 cases. She is a partner in Dispute Resolution Professionals, Inc. in Denver, Co. She is an Advanced Practitioner in the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Family, Training and Workplace sections.
She co-chairs the ACR Spirituality Section.
She is an experiential psychotherapist, specializing in marital therapy, divorce mediation, crisis management, PTSD, and critical incident debriefings. For the last eight years, she has served as a... Read More |
| Zarra Elias, Tampa, Florida, USA |
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Zarra Elias received her law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is a also Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of South Florida, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology. Zarra was the Chapter President of MBB’s university chapter at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She also served as Chair of MBB’s University Chapter Leadership Committee. Read More |
| Alan Gross, Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Alan Gross has mediated and trained for 20 years at many venues in the Northeast US and New York City where he is currently serving as the Special Projects Coordinator for the Safe Horizon Mediation Program. He has previously acted as Senior Director, Training Coordinator, and 9/11 Family Mediation Coordinator for Safe Horizon. His work with 9/11 victims was recognized with a US Department of Justice Volunteer for Victims Award. He has also acted as ombudsman for the American Psychological Association...
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| Deniz Kite, Turkey |
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Dr. Deniz Kite is the first professional mediator in Turkey, Founding Member of L’accadémia Areté Italy, Founding President of Academy of Excellence Turkey. Besides being the first woman coach-mentor registered at Turkish Football Federation, she became the Founder and President of the first Mediators Association in Turkey. She is a Founding Board Member and was the Director of Young Leaders Academy in Turkey. Read More |
| Jean Kling, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Jean Kling has overseas work and study experience in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Spain. As Program Officer for International Medical Corps in Sierra Leone, she wrote new project proposals for primary and secondary health care programs, prepared all program reports, and co-coordinated a national vitamin A survey that assessed the scope and effectiveness of a previous campaign undertaken by the Ministry of Health. As an international recruiter for International Medical Corps, Jean sourced and identified personnel for placement in 16 countries. Read More |
| Laura Perrault, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Laura "Lulu" Perrault currently serves as Directing Attorney of the Immigration Center for Women and Children in San Francisco, California. She has practiced law and/or mediated for over 15 years. After graduating from the University of Colorado-Boulder School of Law, she served as Assistant Attorney General in the Colorado Attorney General's Office Natural Resources Section, enforcing the cleanup of hazardous and nuclear waste sites and participating in extensive negotiations. Read More |
| Ashok Panikkar, Bangalore, India |
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Ashok Panikkar is Meta-Culture's founder and Executive Director. Ashok is a conflict resolution professional who came back to India after ten years in the United States working as a mediator, trainer and facilitator. Over the years, as a Conflict Management Consultant, Senior Trainer and Director of Training, he has conducted hundreds of workshops in negotiation, communication, conflict resolution, thinking skills and cross-cultural/diversity training all around the United States, India and in Europe. Read More |
| Rachel Wohl, Annapolis, Maryland, USA |
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Rachel Wohl, Esq., is the founding executive director of the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO), a statewide office of dispute resolution. MACRO provides grants and works collaboratively to advance the use of ADR, and to improve the quality of mediation practice in Maryland’s courts, schools, communities, government agencies and businesses.
She is a collaborative process designer, mediator and facilitator, and has conducted numerous workshops on a variety of conflict resolution topics... Read More |
Past Board Directors |
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