NCDD 2002 Organizing Team
Content & Format Committee, Skill- and Knowledge-Building Sub-Committee:
Wally Clausen

SCRC's Melissa Wade
- Principal
- Clausen Associates
- [email protected]
Omowale T. Elson, Ph.D.
- Professor, Dept of Communication Studies
- Morgan State University
- [email protected]
Amy Ladd
- Associate Producer
- Group Jazz
- [email protected]
Matt Leighninger
- Senior Associate
- Study Circles Resource Center
- [email protected]
Randy Ross (Chair)
- Program Development Specialist
- New Jersey Office of Bias Crime and Community Relations
- [email protected]
Laurie Shiparski
- Healthy Workplace Specialist
- CPM Resource Center
- [email protected]

Cricket White of Hope in the Cities and Jim Snow of George Mason University's ICAR program.
Jim Snow
- U.S. State Department, Foreign Service Institute (retired)
- Currently George Mason University, Inst. for Conflict Resolution & Analysis
- [email protected]
Bob Stains
- Training Director
- Public Conversations Project
- [email protected]
Aaron Traxler-Ballew
- Program Assistant
- The Program on Intergroup Relations, Conflict, and Community
- University of Michigan
- [email protected]
Jes?s Trevi?o, Ph.D.
- Director
- Intergroup Relations Center
- Arizona State University
- [email protected]
Michael Weiksner
- Co-Founder
- e.thePeople
- [email protected]
Community Building/Fostering Collaboration Sub-Committee:
Craig Alimo
- Office of Human Relations Programs
- University of Maryland
- Diversity Facilitation Specialist
- [email protected]
Reena Bernards
- Director
- The Dialogue Project
- [email protected]
David Campt
- Independent Consultant
- RaceDoctor.org
- [email protected]
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
- Associate Director
- International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR)
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- [email protected]
Paul Gorski (Chair)
- Assistant Director
- Office of Human Relations Programs
- University of Maryland
- [email protected]

Irene Kao holding up one of Elana Stanger's pieces from the conference.
Irene Kao
- Student Outreach/Intergroup Dialogue Program Specialist
- Office of Human Relations Programs
- University of Maryland
- [email protected]
Kent Roberts
- Executive Director
- National Civility Center
- [email protected]
Lars Hasselblad Torres
- Research and Program Associate
- AmericaSpeaks
- [email protected]
Logistics & Amenities Committee:
Pat Eastwood
- Program Facilitator
- Washington State Office of Secondary Education for Migrant Youth
- [email protected]

StrongHeart (left) and Polly Riddims were the logistical divas of the conference.
Polly Riddims (Chair)
- Partner
- Fusion Partnerships
- [email protected]
StrongHeart
- Partner
- Fusion Partnerships
- [email protected]
Melissa Wade
- Program Assistant
- Study Circles Resource Center
- [email protected]
Publicity Committee:
Katie Howard
- Coordinator
- Civic Engagement Initiative of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
- [email protected]
Leslie Inman
- Content Coordinator
- AntiRacismNet: An Initiative of Project Change
- [email protected]
Susanna McIlwaine
- Coordinator
- Practicing Peace
- [email protected]
Nancy Polk
- Project Manager
- Conversations About Education
- [email protected]
Attica Scott (Chair)
- Executive Director
- Knoxville National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ)
- [email protected]
Lawrence Wofford
- President
- The Democracy Project
- [email protected]
Michele Woods Jones
- President, Consulting Division
- Cobb & Henry Publishers
- [email protected]
Reports & Evaluation Committee:

Eric Boyd - at the bar and still working on evaluation forms!
Eric F. Boyd (Chair)
- Executive Director
- Los Angeles Days of Dialogue
- [email protected]
Nabil M. El-Khodari
- Founder & CEO
- Nile Basin Society
- [email protected]
Chip Hauss
- Director of Policy & Research
- Search for Common Ground-USA
- [email protected]
Mary Jacksteit
- Professional Services in Mediation, Facilitation and Arbitration
- [email protected]
Janetta Kearney
- Researcher
- Arkansas State Department of Corrections
- [email protected]
Susan Koscis
- Vice-President of Arts & Culture
- Search for Common Ground
- [email protected]
Theo. R. Leverenz, Ph.D.
- National Conference for Community & Justice
- [email protected]
Aliah Majon
- Programs Coordinator
- Days of Dialogue - Los Angeles
- [email protected]
Paul Wahrhaftig
- President
- Conflict Resolution Center International
- [email protected]
Resources Committee:
Millicent Carvalho
- Executive Director
- Pennsylvania Conflict Resolution and Mediation Services, Inc.
- [email protected]
James Knauer
- Director, the Center for Civic Life
- Professor of Political Science
- Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
- [email protected]
Ernesto Mejia
- Program Assistant for Dialogues On Diversity
- University of Michigan
- [email protected]
Jen Murphy
- Graduate Student
- Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
- George Mason University
- [email protected]
Susan Myers
- Senior Program Associate
- Iowa Peace Institute
- [email protected]
Stacie Walton, M.D. (Chair)
- Adjunct Professor
- Saint Louis University School of Public Health
- [email protected]
Saadia Williams
- Executive Director
- Knoxville Project Change
- [email protected]
Rosa Zubizarreta
- Process Consultant and Facilitator
- Co-Intelligence Institute
- [email protected]
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