May 26, 2004 Announcement - Welcoming 38 New Members!

[Sandy]

Hi, all!

For the past couple of months, I've been ensconced in grant-writing and conference planning, so I have been lax in welcoming our fabulous new NCDD members (there are 38 of them - 19 organizations and 19 individuals!). I've asked all of them to introduce themselves to the NCDD Discussion list, and some of them have done so. If you don't think you're on the NCDD Discussion list, and want to be, let me know and I'll add you.

Our newest members hail from 6 countries, including the U.S. (30), Greece, France, Kenya, Nigeria (2) and Canada (3). The new U.S. members represent 19 states, including Arizona, California (2), Washington DC (2), Florida, Hawaii (2), Iowa (2), Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts (3), New Mexico, New York (5), Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas (2), Virginia, Vermont and Washington. NCDD now has 226 members.

Welcome, all of you, to NCDD! I hope you all become active, engaged members.

Please look over this list of new members, some of which you will recognize and some of which will be new to you. I'm also attaching an updated Excel members chart (let me know if you need an html version). I'll send out another message soon to update members on our new projects, the status of the 2004 conference, etc.

I hope this message finds all of you doing well and enjoying your work!

- Sandy


Our 19 New Organizational Members are:

Arizona State University Intergroup Relations Center (contact Thomas Walker)

The Center for Collaborative Policy, Ca. State University Sacramento (contact David Booher)

Conflict Resolution Center of Iowa (contact Greg Buntz, Ph.D.)

Décentralisation & Initiatives Locales (DiL) (contact Didier Toque)

Deliberative Democracy Consortium (contact Tonya Gonzalez)

Hague Appeal for Peace Nairobi (contact Okero Otieno)

Institute for Global Leadership (contact Virginia Swain, M.A.)

Interactive Theatre for Dialogue (contact Katherine Burke)

National Issues Forums Institute (contact Senator Les Ihara, Jr.)

Niger Delta Neighborhood Link (contact Raphael Acheseomie Ogali)

KNEW Day (contact Karen Ellis)

R. L. Hunt Communications Network (contact Robert L. Hunt, Sr.)

Roundtable (contact Julia John)

Salam: Peace and Justice Institute (contact Mohammed Abu-Nimer)

School of Wellbeing and Wisdom (contact Robyn Wolf)

Seattle Local Peoples Assembly (contact Dick Burkhart)

Vision On (contact Okerayi Oladimeji)

Web Lab (contact Jed Miller)

The Whistler Forum (contact William Roberts)


And our 19 newest individual members are:
Mohammed Abu-Nimer (American University)

Tree Bressen

Norma Buydens (of the University of Manitoba - University Teaching Services)

Lou Anne Caligiuri (of Good Schools Pennsylvania)

Kenneth Cissna, Ph.D. (of the University of South Florida, Dept. of Communication)

Tess Deddo (of Middlebury College)

Dolores Foley (of the University of Hawaii)

Ndumba Kamwanyah

Stephani Roy McCallum (of Circle Associates - Public Involvement & Stakeholder Relations)

Steven Mantz (of Touro College)

Christopher McMullen

Philip Neisser (of SUNY Potsdam)

Julianna Padgett

Jimmy Pryor

Alice Rudnick (New York State Office of ADR Programs)

Sandy Schuman (of the Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College)

Carrie Stewart (of One World Consulting)

Ibrahim Adoke Yakubu