Priya Parker is a conflict transformation and dialogue trainer and facilitator. She has conducted workshops on Sustained Dialogue in over 20 university and high school campuses in the US, as well as in American communities, in India, South Africa, and Zambia, and is currently working with an Arab-American-European Sustained Dialogue. She was a founding-member of the US-based Sustained Dialogue Campus Network. From 2005-2008, Priya lived in India, where she was a a Sustained Dialogue Consultant for WISCOMP (Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace) based in and a policy analyst for PRS Legislative Research. In 2008, she returned to the US to pursue a Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA at MIT Sloan.
Priya’s leadership led to the creation of NCDD’s pilot mentorship program. She has also served on NCDD’s Steering Committee and as Emcee at NCDD’s 2006 conference in San Francisco.