Organizing Team Members & Committees

Steering Committee:

Eric F. Boyd
Executive Director
Los Angeles Days of Dialogue
[email protected]

Paul Gorski
Assistant Director
Office of Human Relations Programs
University of Maryland
[email protected]

Sandy Heierbacher (Conference Director)
Director
Dialogue to Action Initiative
[email protected]

David Isaacs
Co-Founder
The World Caf?
[email protected]

Martha McCoy
Executive Director
Study Circles Resource Center
[email protected]

Maggie Potapchuk
Senior Program Associate
NABRE and the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
[email protected]

Polly Riddims
Partner
Fusion Partnerships
[email protected]

Randy Ross
Program Development Specialist
New Jersey Office of Bias Crime and Community Relations
[email protected]

Doug Sarno
Co-Director
Perspectives Group
[email protected]

David Schoem
Faculty Director of Michigan Community Scholars Program
University of Michigan
[email protected]

Attica Scott
Executive Director
Knoxville National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ)
[email protected]

Elaine Shen
Director of Partnerships & Training
Television Race Initiative/Active Voice
[email protected]

Jesús Treviño, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Multicultural Affairs
University of Denver
[email protected]

Melissa Wade
Program Assistant
Study Circles Resource Center
[email protected]

Stacie Walton, M.D.
Adjunct Professor
Saint Louis University School of Public Health
[email protected]

Cricket White
Training and Communication Director
Hope in the Cities
[email protected]

Special Consultants:

Tom Atlee
Co-Intelligence Institute

Glenna Gerard
The Dialogue Group

Michael McCormick
Study Circles Resource Center

Lilith Ren
Federal Aviation Administration

Content & Format Committee:

Skill- and Knowledge-Building Sub-Committee:

Wally Clausen
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]

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
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]

Jessica Est?vez
Multicultural & Cross-Cultural Director
Greenville College
[email protected]

Lisa Lynelle Moore
Assistant Director
Women's Community Center
Stanford University
[email protected]

Chavella Pittman
Doctoral candidate in Sociology
University of Michigan
[email protected]

Polly Riddims (Chair)
Partner
Fusion Partnerships
[email protected]

Audrey Norman-Turner
Project Director
Dayton Dialogue on Race Relations
[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 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]



Introduction
- about the conference
- who should attend

Summary
- why this conference?
- full proposal (pdf)

Purpose & Goals
- conference goals
- survey results

Leadership
- history of conference
- organizing team
- coalition
- NABRE
- Hewlett Foundation
- conference director

About Dialogue
- what is dialogue?

Registration
- registration form

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