Mediate.com Advisory Board
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Peter is President of The Keystone Center at www.keystone.org . Previously, Peter was Executive Director of the Hawaii Justice Foundation. He was also Managing Partner of The Accord Group, a national network of professionals engaged in mediation, facilitation and consensus-building. He was also president of the International Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. www.eyeofthestormleadership.com.
Robert Benjamin, J.D., M.S.W. Portland, OR
Robert is a prominent mediation trainer and author. Robert is former President of the Academy of Family Mediators (AFM), a former member of the Board of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). He presents negotiation, mediation, and conflict management workshops, seminars and training courses nationally and internationally. Robert's website is at www.rbenjamin.com
John Helie, MS
As one of the founding
directors of the Mediation Information and Resource Center, John Helie continues his commitment to dispute resolution and the
Internet. In 1988, John founded ConflictNet, a pre-Internet network of
The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) and the International Association
for Progressive Communications (APC). ConflictNet served as an information
sharing network for the Conflict Resolution Practitioners community. A
trained mediator and facilitator, John has pioneered work being done with
online conflict and communication. His interest in conflict resolution
and the Internet led to his involvement with RuleNet, an Internet/Web
based Regulatory Negotiation Process sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. He designed software tools for building and evaluating consensus
within the RuleNet project and was the first facilitator to use this technology.
John formerly held a Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst in the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution.
His personal website is www.mediate.com/jrhelie
Jeff Krivis, J.D., Los Angeles, CA
Jeff is a private mediator and arbitrator in Los Angeles and an adjunct professor of law at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution/Pepperdine University where he administers the Dispute Resolution Clinic and is course director for the "Mediating The Litigated Case" program. Jeff is also the current chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Technology Committee. Jeff's website is at www.firstmediation.com
Michael Lang, J.D., Sarasota, FL,
Michael has been mediating family, commercial, public policy and organizational disputes since 1978. He is the founding director of the Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution at Antioch University, a former President and Board member of the Academy of Family Mediators, and long-time Editor-in-Chief of Mediation Quarterly. Michael's website is at www.mediate.com/michaellang
L. Randolph Lowry III
Dr. L. Randolph Lowry is founder of the nationally-recognized Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and professor of law at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He took office as Lipscomb University’s 17th president Sept. 26, 2005.
Mimi Lyster, San Francisco, CA
Mimi Lyster is ADR Coordinator for the Contra Costa County, CA courts. She has been helping parents settle custody and family disputes for over 25 years. She is the author of "Child Custody: Building Parenting Agreements that Work, Nolo 1997. Mimi has served on the Board of Directors of the California Dispute Resolution Council and the Commission of the Future of the California Courts.
Jamie Moffitt
Jamie Moffitt is Assistant Dean at the University of
Oregon School of Law. Previously, Jamie served as COO of Mediate.com.
Before this, Jamie was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey and Company
where she advised Fortune 500 companies on strategic and operational projects.
Jamie has mediated in the Boston District Courts and served as Director
of Training for the Harvard Mediation Program. She has delivered negotiation
training programs for executives and law students through the Harvard
Negotiation Project, published numerous articles on negotiation and mediation,
and served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.
She currently sits on the Harvard Mediation Program's Advisory Board.
Jamie holds a BA from Harvard College, a MALD from The Fletcher School
of Law & Diplomacy, and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Peter Robinson, J.D., Malibu, CA
Peter is the current Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Assistant Professor of Law at Pepperdine Law School. Prior to joining Pepperdine, Peter was the director of the Christian Conciliation Service of Los Angeles, a non-profit dispute resolution center. See http://law.pepperdine.edu/straus/
Chip Rose J.D., Santa Cruz, CA
Chip Rose is Director of The Mediation Center in Santa Cruz, a well-known divorce mediator and former member of the board of the Academy of Family Mediators. Chip is the author of Collaborative Family Law Practice and The Creative Solution column in the quarterly Mediation News. Since 1995, Chip has been providing training throughout the United States and Canada in the Collaborative Family Law model. Chip maintains a private mediation practice in Santa Cruz and has a website at www.mediate.com/crose
Don Saposnek, Ph.D., Santa Cruz, CA
Donald T. Saposnek, Ph.D., is a Clinical-Child Psychologist, who divides his professional time between child custody mediation, training and consulting, child and family therapy, and teaching in the Psychology Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was the Editor of the Academy of Family Mediators' Mediation News since 1993 and is currently the Editor of the Family Mediation News, the newsletter of the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution. He is on the editorial boards of the Family Court Review and the Mediation Quarterly journals. See www.mediate.com/dsaposnek
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