Peninsula Mediation & ADR

List of Independent Mediation Contractors

First Name	Last Name	Region	Location	Bio
John	Settle	East	Arlington VA	John Settle is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Arlington, Virginia. John has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Richmond, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, a law degree from American University (where he was an editor of the Law Review), and a Certificate in Environmental Management from the University of Southern California. John is a certified mediator, trainer of mediators, and consultant in conflict management and other subjects related to alternative dispute resolution (ADR), EEO and other workplace conflict, and employee relations. He is a member of the Virginia Bar. Since 1998, John has been President of SETTLEment Associates, LLC, and Aof counsel to the Alexandria, Virginia, employment law firm of Riselli and Pressler. He currently is President of the Board of the Virginia Mediation Network and co-chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution1s committee on advanced workplace mediation standards. John is certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia to mediate court-referred cases and to provide training in basic mediation, mediation of workplace disputes, and the judicial system. The Court also has certified him as one of its Mentor Mediators. John specializes in mediation of EEO and workplace disputes. He has mediated hundreds of disputes for private companies and throughout government (including such agencies as USDA, Forest Service, NASA, CPSC, NOAA, NIH, FDA, ATF, and others).
Kathey	Foskett	East	Manassas VA	Kathey Foskett is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Manassas, Virginia. Kathey earned an MS degree in Counseling from Western Connecticut State University. Kathey is an associate with SETTLEment Associates, LLC, a private firm offering mediation and training and the Program Coordinator in Prince William County for Northern Virginia Mediation Service (NVMS), a training, consultation and mediation service organization located at the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution at George Mason University. Ms. Foskett is a Virginia Supreme Court certified trainer, mediator and mentor mediator with an Advanced Certificate and is a Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Kathey is also a member of the Virginia Mediation Network and the Association for Conflict Resolution. Kathey has designed and conducted numerous training programs for professionals in the areas of mediation, conflict management and resolution and related skills. She has provided training for many federal agencies, Johns Hopkins and George Mason Universities, federal and private sector employees, attorneys, therapists, and other professionals who are in the initial phase of mediation training. She also provides advanced skills training for experienced mediators. As a mediator, Kathey has worked on a variety of cases since 1990. These have included workplace/EEO disputes, general and circuit court cases, landlord tenant, neighborhood, community, divorce and other types of conflicts. Ms. Foskett has served on many mediation and conflict related committees and planning groups including the NVMS Board of Directors and the 31st Judicial District Mediation Advisory Committee.
Tazwell	Hubard, III, Esq.	East	Norfolk VA	Tazewell Hubard is the Executive Director of Benchmark Conflict Management located in Norfolk, Virginia. Benchmark provides a comprehensive range of mediation services for the handling of family, workplace, community, personal injury, and complex/multi-party civil and commercial disputes. His educational achievements include a Bachelor of Arts from the Virginia Military Institute, a Juris Doctorate from T.C. Williams School of Law, and the graduate program and training in dispute resolution from the Mediation Institute of America and John Haynes Mediation Training Institute. Tazewell has provided consulting services to businesses, localities, and the Federal government on mediation and conflict management issues. He is certified as a mediator by the Supreme Court of Virginia and is a practitioner member of the Academy of Family Mediators. He is a former member of the Joint Committee of the Virginia State Bar and Virginia Bar Association on Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Virginia Bar Association Commission on the Needs of Children, and the Mediation Committee of the Virginia State Bar Family Law Section. Tazewell sits on the mediation panel for the Baltimore Region EEOC, Norfolk, Virginia District Office for resolving Title VII related disputes. Tazewell has been in private practice for the past 26 years, after serving as an Assistant City Attorney and Commonwealth1s Attorney for the City of Norfolk. He has served as an Associate Judge in the Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Courts and the General District Courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia since 1982, and has mediated over 1,700 family and civil cases over the past 17 years. Tazewell has served as a trainer/presenter for the Virginia Mediation Network, Tidewater Mediation Network, District Court Judges Conference, Circuit Court Judges Conference, EEOC, and numerous other organizations. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary.
Luis Miguel	Díaz	East	Arlington VA	English Luis Miguel Díaz is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Arlington, Virginia. He is the President of the Center for Interdisciplinary Management of Conflicts, a non-profit organization in Mexico City. Luis Miguel experience includes management of conflicts as negotiator, coordinator, facilitator and mediator; administration and interpretation of laws and treaties as government official and arbitrator; teaching and promotion of conflict resolution methods as professor, speaker, trainer and author; and negotiation and drafting treaties and laws as diplomat and consultant. He graduated at Harvard Law School, Science Juridical Doctor (SJD), and Masters in Laws (LLM); and is attorney at law from UNAM, Mexico City. Luis Miguel is author of 15 books and over ninety articles. He is both Mexican and US citizen. His books include: Manejo de conflictos desde la sabiduría del cine y las canciones. Más Chaplin y menos Platón, México, 2005. Moralejas para mediar y negociar, México, 2004. Commercial Mediation and Arbitration in the NAFTA Countries, JurisNet Publishing, New York, 1999 co-editor. Articles include El desaprender el pensamiento jurídico como acceso a la Ley Modelo de Conciliación Comercial Internacional, Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, 2006. National Treaty Law and Practice: Mexico, in National Treaty Law and Practice, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, ASIL, 2005. Management of Environmental Social Conflicts in Mexico (Co-author); The Beatles and Mediation; and Wittgenstein and Mediation all in www.mediate.com Mediation Furthers the Principles of Transparency and Cooperation To Solve International Business Disputes in the NAFTA Free Trade Area, co-author, Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 2002. The U.S. Uniform Mediation Act and the Draft UNCITRAL Model Law, co-author, Practicing Law Institute, N.Y., March, 2002. Mediation in the Year 2051, Dispute Resolution Journal, 2001. Espanol Luis Miguel Diaz es un contratista independiente de Peninsula Mediation & ADR en Arlington, Virginia. Es Presidente del Centro Interdisciplinario para el Manejo de Conflictos, una organización civil sin ánimo de lucro en la Ciudad de México. La experiencia de Luis Miguel incluye el manejo de conflictos nacionales e internacionales como negociador, facilitador, coordinador y mediador: la redacción y negociación de tratados y leyes como diplomático y consultor; la aplicación e interpretación de leyes y tratados como funcionario del gobierno y árbitro internacional; la enseñanza y difusión de temas de solución de conflictos como profesor, conferencista, instructor y autor. Es ciudadano de México y de los Estados Unidos de América. Es Doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas (SJD) y Maestro en Derecho Internacional (LLM) de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Harvard. Es licenciado en Derecho de la UNAM. Luis Miguel es autor de 15 libros y más de noventa artículos. Entre sus libros, Manejo de conflictos desde la sabiduría del cine y las canciones. Más Chaplin y menos Platón, México, 2005. Moralejas para mediar y negociar, México, 2004. Commercial Mediation and Arbitration in the NAFTA Countries, JurisNet Publishing, New York, 1999 co-editor. Entre sus artículos El desaprender el pensamiento jurídico como acceso a la Ley Modelo de Conciliación Comercial Internacional, Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, 2006. National Treaty Law and Practice: Mexico, in National Treaty Law and Practice, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, ASIL, 2005. Management of Environmental Social Conflicts in Mexico (co-author); The Beatles and Mediation; and Wittgenstein and Mediation all in www.mediate.com Mediation Furthers the Principles of Transparency and Cooperation To Solve International Business Disputes in the NAFTA Free Trade Area, co-author, Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 2002. The U.S. Uniform Mediation Act and the Draft UNCITRAL Model Law, co-author, Practicing Law Institute, N.Y., March, 2002. Mediation in the Year 2051, Dispute Resolution Journal, 2001. Contact Information Toledo 26-8, Col. Juárez México D.F. 06600 Tel 52 55 52074165, Tel/Fax 52 55 55334978 www.solucionegociada.com lmd@solucionegociada.com
Judy	Cohen	Northeast	New York NY	Judy Cohen is ADR Program Manager for the Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region where she directs an internal workplace mediation program. As a private contractor, she is on numerous mediation and labor arbitration rosters, and has mediated federal sectors cases for such agencies as the Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Postal Service; the Department of the Treasury; and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (federal side). Judy is a frequent writer, public speaker and trainer in workplace dispute resolution, with a sub-specialization in disability issues. She has conducted extensive training for the Department of Navy and other federal agencies in ADA Mediation. Judy is active in the mediator community, including memberships on: Federal Inter-Agency ADR Working Group Subcommittee on Confidentiality and Program Administration which is developing a guide for ADR Administrators; ADR Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and the American Bar Association ADR Section. She is a former adjunct professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution to human resources graduate students at School of Management, Center for Labor and Industrial Relations, New York Institute of Technology; and former Coordinator, Workplace Conflict Management Training Program, CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium.
Loraine	Della Porta, Esq	Northeast	Cranston RI	Loraine Della Porta is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Cranston, Rhode Island. Loraine holds a Juris Doctorate from Roger Williams University School of Law, a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Providence College and has studied extensively at Pepperdine University1s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Loraine is the Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR), a state agency that serves to facilitate and expand the use of dispute resolution in state government. Loraine is also an experienced mediator, facilitator, and trainer who specializes in labor and employment issues and resolving workplace disputes. She has taught extensively in the areas of Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Diversity, and Workplace Violence Prevention. Prior to joining the MODR staff, Loraine spent 17 years with the U.S. Postal Service where she held positions in the Labor Relations, EEO and ADR fields, including the position of ADR Program Coordinator for the Southeast New England District. Loraine serves on the Board of Directors for the New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), formerly known as SPIDR, and is a volunteer in her community mediation program.
Deborah	Diamond	Northwest	Seattle WA	Deborah Diamond is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Seattle, WA. Deborah earned a BA from Carleton College and an MA from the University of Lancaster (England, UK). Deborah Diamond has extensive experience conducting large and small group mediations, facilitations, and training related to employment, compliance, business, and EEO issues. She co-designed and co-founded the Intergovernmental ADR Consortium, a groundbreaking effort to partner with area public sector agencies to provide ADR services. The Consortium was featured at numerous ADR forums. With consultative assistance, the model has been replicated nationwide and received an Honorary Award from the Office of Personnel Management. Deborah has also worked with a wide variety of clients under the auspices of the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. EEO Commission, the InterLocal Conflict Resolution Group, the Center for Employment Dispute Resolution, and the Snohomish County Dispute Resolution Center. Parties have included employees, supervisors, federal/state/county/city/port agencies, labor organizations, Congressional offices, tenants unions, tribal authorities, merchants, consumers, neighbors, landlords, plus attorneys and personal representatives. Deborah is an experienced family mediator and has a particular interest working with non-traditional families. Deborah is certified by the Washington Mediation Association (WMA) in the following areas of practice: Labor/Employment, Business/ Community, and Domestic Relations. She has conducted over 300 mediations since 1991. She is highly skilled in using the facilitative, transformative, and directive mediation models to assist parties in resolving disputes. Deborah is also certified to conduct Myers-Briggs Type Indicator workshops.
Tuan	Pham	Northwest / Capitol	DC VA	Tuan Pham is an independent contractor with Peninsula Mediation for the NW/Cap region which includes the DC, northern Virginia area. Tuan has served as Vice-president/Senior credit officer, Riggs Bank, DC, 1978-95. He was also personnel officer for the United Nations, Thailand, 1973-74. Tuan also served as an administrative specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Laos, 1963-73. Tuan’s professional experience includes extensive experience in financial management, public speaking, and cross-cultural training. As mediator, Tuan Pham works well with parties, with or without counsels, in and out of caucuses. His approach is culturally sensitive and facilitative focusing on empowerment and broad interests of parties in conflict.
Lisa	Burk	Northwest/Capitol	Portland OR	Lisa Burk is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Portland, Oregon. Lisa graduated from Humbolt State University in Arcata, California with a Bachelors is Psychology and Portland State University in Portland, Oregon with a Masters in Social Work. Lisa offers her eighteen years of professional mediation experience and eleven years of work as a consultant and trainer to provide expert assistance to businesses, public and private non-profit agencies in the areas of conflict resolution and mediation, conflict management system design, mentoring/coaching/training mediators, diversity and communication, organizational development and assessment, and group facilitation and strategic planning. Lisa is the owner of Communication Works, an Oregon Limited Liability Company, and specializes in resolving complex organizational disputes; many involving diversity issues. She has trained over five thousand individuals in cross-cultural conflict resolution, communication and diversity. She has trained and mentored over 2000 mediators. Lisa is professionally affiliated with the Oregon Mediation Association. where she has been a member since 1986 serving as Board Member from 1992 - 1999, and Board President from 1996 - 1999. She is also an Adjunct Faculty member with Portland State University1s Professional Development Center since 1998.
Dane	Keehn	Northwest/Capitol	Bainbridge Island WA	Dane Keehn is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Dane earned a BA from Cornell University and an MA from Sonoma State University. Dane has over 18 years mediation experience. He has mediated over 600 cases in both the private and public sector. He specializes in workplace EEO, union grievances, employer-employee, and employee-employee mediations. He has experience handling complex, multiparty, sensitive disputes. He is a mentor mediator with the Washington Mediation Association, the King County Dispute Resolution Center, the Dispute Resolution Center of Kitsap County, Sound Options Mediation Group, and Keehn Mediation Group. He is also a member of the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) and the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). He is currently the Executive Director of the Dispute Resolution Center of Kitsap County.
Jerry	Bagnell	Southeast	Wilmington NC	Jerry Bagnell is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Wilmington, North Carolina. Jerry has been a mediator and trainer since 1979. He has a Master of Education from the University of Delaware and a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia. Jerry has served as Director of the Divorce Mediation Service from 1987-2001. He is an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and serves on the ACR Membership Committee and Unauthorized Practice of Law Task Force. He is a member of the Family Section Advisory Council, serves on their Budget and Membership Committees, and is Chair of the Nominations Committee and Chair of the 2003 Conference Committee. He is also a member of the Crisis Negotiation Section and Chair of that Section1s Ethics Committee. Jerry is Past President of the Virginia Mediation Network, and was a board member of the Heartlands Mediators Association in Kansas and NY State Council on Divorce Mediation. He is also a mediator for Child Find of America, a nationwide organization that helps recover children abducted by one of their parents or family members. In Virginia, Jerry was Co-chair of the Chesterfield County Domestic Violence Task Force. He served on the boards of the Center for Restorative Justice, Domestic Violence Intervention Project, and the Richmond Domestic Violence Coordinating Committee. He was Sponsor for Parents Anonymous, served on their advisory board and was a staff trainer for Greater Richmond SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now). Jerry was a co-presenter for Designing A Domestic Violence Protocol For Your Mediation Program, a program certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia, presented to individuals preparing for certification as Family Mediators. He was co-facilitator for Helping Children Cope with Divorce, Living Apart, Parenting Together and The Business of Co-parenting for Chesterfield County; Coordinator of Parenting After Divorce for Hanover County; and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Richmond. His involvement as a trainer and mentor-mediator for Department of the Navy began in June 1998. He has been an assistant instructor for training presented in Norfolk, VA, San Diego, CA, and at Navy installations in the Seattle, WA area.
J. Sidney	Davis	Southeast	Tampa FL	Sid Davis is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Tampa, Florida. Sid graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a BA, Western Carolina University with an MA and University of Missouri with a PhD. Sid has been affiliated with the James A. Haley Veterans1 Administration Medical Center in Tampa, FL since 1987 and has over 20 years of federal service in addition to maintaining a private practice in psychology and mediation. Sid1s introduction to formal mediation came in 1995. In 1997 he was chosen as one of 12 individuals throughout the Department of Veterans1 Affairs Veterans1 Health Administration to formally train new mediators. Since that time he has been active in both mediation and in the training of mediators throughout the federal sector. Sid continues to be a strong proponent for the facilitative process of mediation and has been instrumental in the development of mediation programs throughout the VA and other federal agencies. He is a licensed psychologist and certified as a mediator by the Department of Veterans1 Affairs, certified by the State of Florida as both a family and county mediator, and in 2002 he received the Pace Setter Award from the Department of Veterans1 Affairs for his work in developing and training new mediators.
Josefina	Rendon	Southeast	Houstan TX	Josefina M. Rendon has been a third party neutral for over 22 years as judge, arbitrator or mediator. Since 1993, she has conducted over 500 mediations for entities such as the Houston Federal Executive Board Shared Neutrals Program, U.S. Postal Services, Defense Logistics Agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Better Business Bureau, Harris County Dispute Resolution Center, Texas Education Agency, Key Bridge Foundation, U.S. Dept of Justice-Civil Rights Division (ADA), U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Texas Rural/Mediation Services and several Civil and Family courts in Texas. Josefina has had hundreds of hours of mediation training including advanced employment law and advanced family mediation training. She is also a frequent author and trainer on ADR and the editor of The Texas Mediator (quarterly publication of the Texas Association of Mediators).
Rita	Callahan	Southeast	Atlanta GA	Rita Callahan, of Working It Out, is a mediator, trainer, coach, facilitator, consultant, and speaker and has consulted with many federal agencies, the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, and companies like American Express, CNN, BP-Amoco, IBM, Prudential, and others since 1985. She serves on mediation panels for Peninsula Mediation Center, the U.S. Postal Service, the Justice Center of Atlanta, and several court systems and has mediated for several federal agencies. She provides Mediation and Conflict Resolution workplace training for groups and organizations and coaches mediators and employees throughout the US. She has recently worked with the USDA, CDC, Department of State, the Veteran’s Administration, the National Security Agency, and other federal agencies. She Co-Chairs the 1000 member Workplace Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution and is co-founder and President of ACR’s Georgia Chapter. She is a speaker at national conferences including the American Bar Association - Dispute Resolution Section, the Center for Disease Control’s First Annual 2003 National ADR Quality Conference, the Performance Institute’s 2003 National Symposium on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Government, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the International Association for Facilitators. Rita has a B.S. in Mathematics and a Master’s in Decision Science from Georgia State University’s Business School.
Lynne	Stern	Southeast	Metairie LA	Lynne Stern is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Metairie, Louisiana. Lynne graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA and from Columbia School of Law with a JD. Lynne has been a full-time mediator since 1993. Her mediation experience includes numerous multi-party cases as well as sexual harassment, employment discrimination, commercial and personal injury matters. She is on the approved list of mediators for Orleans Parish Civil District Court, the Louisiana Register of Mediators, National Health Lawyers Association, National Association of Securities Dealers, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and JAMS. She has also mediated Americans Disability Act cases for the Key Bridge Foundation in rural Mississippi and has knowledge of the agricultural issues affecting the Mississippi Delta in and around Greenville. She also conducts mediation training workshops. Ms. Stern is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association1s Continuing Legal Education Committee, the LSBA1s ADR Section Council and the New Orleans Bar Association1s ADR Steering Committee. Active in the ABA, she is a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of the Labor Law Section and former chairman of the Mediation Subcommittee of the Litigation Section1s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.
Lynn	Miller	Southwest	Honolulu HI	Ms. Miller has served as the director of training and lead trainer for four years. Previously she served as executive director for the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women. For several sessions she served as committee clerk in both the House and Senate of the Hawaii state legislature. Ms. Miller also coordinated various statewide programs and initiatives for over 10 years in five different state agencies, including the Governor’s Office of Children and Youth, where she was program coordinator for the Good Beginnings project. Concurrently, she spent two years on reserve and active duty for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a disaster assistance coordinator. Ms. Miller provided educational and career-transition programs on-various Hawaii military installations for over ten years. Prior to government service, Ms. Miller was a community college counselor and instructor specializing in special needs and transition populations.
Lynne	Bassis	Southwest	Pasadena CA	Lynne Bassis is an independent contractor for Peninsula Mediation & ADR in Pasadena, California. She is an accomplished mediator, mediation trainer, contributor to the Los Angeles Daily Journal and speaker. She is the past director of the Disability Mediation Center at Loyola Law School. Her private mediation practice emphasis is employment, disability and elder law matters. Lynne also mediates professional malpractice and commercial disputes. Lynne is a member of the American Arbitration Association employment mediation panel and mediates for the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (EEOC), United States Postal Service (EEO) and US Department of Navy, Social Security Administration and other federal agencies. As observed by all parties at the table, Lynne is tenacious and skilled in her handling of the sensitive issues that arise in employment mediations. The quality of her services, reflective of her 13 years as a practicing mediator and 9 years as a mediation trainer, is on par with the most experienced mediators in California.
Debra	Dupree	Southwest	San Diego CA	Debra Dupree has professionally practiced as a Mediator since 1994 and has mediated over 300 cases in the following areas: Disability and reasonable accommodation Workplace Discrimination, Harassment, and Hostile Work Environment Landlord/Tenant Disputes Physician/Patient Disputes Manager/Employee Workplace Disputes Employee/Employee Workplace Disputes Family and Family Business Disputes In addition to her mediation background, Debra possesses a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and successfully completed Pre-doctoral training in Organizational Development & Disability Management from San Diego State University. Debra also holds the following credentials: Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (State of California) Certified Professional in Disability Management & Certified Ergonomic Evaluation Specialist Certified Case Manager & Rehabilitation Counselor Master Trainer, MTI Workplace Conflict Resolution Strategies Sr. Instructor, PULSE Institute/MTI Mediator Certification Program, Level I & II She presently serves on several federal (EEOC, DON, and Air Force) and private sector mediator panels (LUMETRA and Mediator Network/Consolidated Legal Concepts), providing mediation services as an Impartial Third Party Mediator, primarily around workplace issues. Debra is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) as a Workplace Advanced Practitioner and is the current Tri-Chair for ACR Workplace Section. She also serves as the Secretary for ADR-San Diego. She is a member in good professional standing with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); the California Association of Marriage, Family Therapists (CAMFT), and the Disability Management Employers’ Coalition (DMEC). Debra is the author of several published articles on mediation in the workplace.

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