:This page augments Networking And Collaboration, the original 2004 NCDD conference networking page, where you will find additional attendee statements and bios.
Interested in networking with other D&Ders before and during the 2004 National Conference On Dialogue And Deliberation? Perhaps exploring possibilities for collaboration? This is the place.
Here you can: *Review the bios and networking/collaboration interests of others who are coming to the conference *Use your browser's "Find on this page" tool to search for others with similar interests (Try searching for common terms: "nonviolent communication," "polariz," "large-scale," "research," etc.) *Add your own Statement of Interests (keep it to 150 words or less, please)
You can also propose a topic for the Conference Networking Session on Saturday evening.
More Networking Statements/Bios
Linda Mather Linda Mather is the founding chief executive officer for the Forums Institute for Public Policy which is committed to supporting sound public policy through education, research and dialogue. For over ten years, she has been the facilitator for the NJ Policy Forums on Health and Medical Care which currently has affiliates in twenty other states. She is a certified professional facilitator and the treasurer of the Int*l Association of Facilitators. She holds a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.Sandra Zagon Sandra recently retired from Canada*s federal public service with over 30 years of experience in several public policy areas, including consultation, official languages, and learning. She also retired from the Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN), where she worked on several national citizens* dialogues between 1999 and 2003. Sandra continues to work as a consultant on dialogue and deliberation online and in-person activities. Her energies are currently devoted to the organization of the first ever Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation (C2D2), which will be held in Ottawa, Canada, in the Fall of 2005. Stay tuned for details. 10/4
Susan Dryovage Starkey Susan has twenty years of experience as an organizational consultant and communications trainer. She has also served as an advocate in the field of social justice through work in criminal justice. Ms. Starkey has her own consulting firm, which offers services to encourage and enable individuals, small groups and organizations to develop meaningful work environments. This includes managing change creatively and developing facilitative leadership skills while engaging the organization in reaching its highest goals. Susan is a regular facilitator for Regis University's Institute on the Common Good and is also affiliate faculty in Regis' Masters of Non-Profit Management program. She lives in Evergreen, CO.
Anne Oliver Since 1975 Anne Oliver has been helping people be creative and effective in challenging circumstances. Using her training and background in adult development, human services, nonprofit administration, land use planning, dispute resolution and restorative processes, she designs with her clients comprehensive approaches that build on their assets. Anne specializes in helping women prepare for and take on the challenges of public leadership. She also trains and consults with schools who want to build productive learning climates.
Lori Blewett, Ph.D. Is a co-founder of the School for Designing a Society, and is a long-time activist in peace and social justice movements. Her research and writing have focused on cross-cultural communication, social justice pedagogy, white anti-racist identity, and conflict among women. She currently teaches at The Evergreen State College where she brings a communication and conflict studies approach to interdisciplinary courses on a variety of subjects including race, gender, social change, and international politics (particularly the Palestinian-Israeli conflict).
Tom Atlee From a co-op house in Eugene, Oregon, NCDD Steering Committee member Tom Atlee advocates dialogue, deliberation and democracy in his book The Tao of Democracy, on the co-intelligence.org website and through a continuing stream of e-mailed articles. He works for a D&D movement grounded in diverse approaches and holistic understandings. For more info see Tom Atlee.
Sandy Heierbacher Sandy Heierbacher is the Convenor of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), and she has served as the Director of NCDD*s 2002 and 2004 national conferences, working in collaboration with dozens of people from across the spectrum of dialogic and deliberative practice. NCDD has become a vibrant network of nearly 300 organizations and individuals who, collectively, regularly engage and mobilize millions of Americans around today's critical issues. In addition to her work with NCDD, Sandy has consulted for such organizations as the Corporation for National Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kettering Foundation in the areas of intergroup dialogue, public participation and deliberative democracy.
Reena Bernards Reena Bernards is a trainer in conflict resolution and leadership development and has worked with scores of clients. Through U.S. government grants, she trains women leaders in Syria and Morocco. She has conducted peace dialogues between Israelis and Palestinians, Armenians and Azeris, as well as between other ethnic groups. She is on the Board of the Jewish Multiracial Network. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Rebecca Williams Rebecca Williams has worked as a change agent for social justice and organizational planning for over two decades. She has worked for corporate and non-profit clients including Mercedes-Benz of North America and the National Black Arts Festival of Atlanta. She conducts workshops entitled, "Black on Black Stereotypes: Too Black, or Not Black Enough. She also led "Face to Face Chat Room on Race," a monthly cross-racial dialogue sponsored by the Crystal Quilt Inc. She has a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University.
Ken Homer Ken Homer is a World Cafe designer and host. The question: What if that all human activity is preceded by and coordinated through the medium of conversation? led Ken to take seriously the roles that language and talking together play in creating our world and whether it works for us or not. Ken has worked for the last seven years on the evolution of the World Cafe, listening in for what really matters to both the people and the process.
Susan Skjei Susan Skjei, M.S. is President of Sane Systems, a management consulting firm specializing in participative approaches to Leadership and Organization Development. Formerly a VP of Human Resource Development, she is currently the Director of the Authentic Leadership Certificate program at Naropa University and a co-founder of the Shambhala Institute.
Gloria Francesca Mengual Gloria Francesca Mengual has 20 years experience in communications, media relations and writing for nonprofits in the child welfare, health care and social services arenas. She has covered the Hispanic community as a correspondent for the Hartford Courant. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Bridgeport. She is a program director for the Study Circles Resource Center.
Carrie Boron As Deputy Communication Director for the Study Circles Resource Center, Carrie Boron manages media relations, directs web site content and redesigns, and manages SCRC's print and e-mail newsletters. Previously, she was the communication associate for the Alliance for Justice in Washington, D.C., where she managed press relations, publications and the web site. She holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Maryland at College Park, Md.
Tim Erickson Tim Erickson has been managing online dialogues and discussions on public policy issues for over 5 years. He is actively involved in E-Democracy.org and is the list manager for the St. Paul Issues Forum. He is also the founder of Politalk.Com, where he has facilitated a number of national and international dialogues on issues ranging from campaign finance reform to the war in Iraq. Tim is also an active member of the online working group of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (ODDC).
Joseph Peters Joseph Peters is a partner with Ascentum. He has led a number of high profile e-consultation initiatives, responsible for the overall strategy, content development and reporting and analysis. He strengthens his information technology expertise with a policy and communications background. Major projects include the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada and the House of Commons first e-consultation on Canada Pension Plan Disability.
Richard Chasin, MD Dick is a founding Associate of Public Conversations Project. A Past President of the American Family Therapy Academy and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard, he has facilitated dialogues for PCP and was lead author of PCP*s article, ""From Diatribe to Dialogue on Public Issues."
Maggie Herzig Maggie is a founding Associate of Public Conversations Project. She has facilitated dialogues across religious and ethnic differences and on such divisive topics as abortion and forest management. She is lead author of PCP*s Guide to Community Dialogue, which she is currently adapting for intra-Jewish dialogue on the Middle East.
Stacie Molnar-Main Stacie Molnar-Main is the Project Coordinator for the University of Pennsylvania site of Project 540. Over the last two years, she has supported over 30 high schools in their implementation of this dialogue-driven youth civic engagement initiative. Ms. Molnar-Main, a former school psychologist, is also a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania where she studies deliberation and its effects in schools.
Harris J. Sokoloff Harris Sokoloff directs a professional development and applied research center for school superintendents at Penn's Graduate School of Education, serving superintendents from more than 80 districts in PA and NJ. He directs Penn*s Deliberative Democracy Workshop and is co-designer and lead moderator of the Citizen Voices project of the Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board.
Hank Topper Hank Topper coordinates coordinates technical assistance and training for multimedia measurement and assessment of toxic pollution in communities for the USEPA. Hank is a member of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium's "Link to Government" task group.
Roger Bernier In his work with the National Immunization Program, Dr Roger Bernier has been working to develop improved methods of public participation in vaccine policy. Under his leadership the initiative for a National Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative (VPACE) has been underway for nearly three years. Roger is a member of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium's "Link to Government" task group.
Janet Fiero, Ph.D. Dr. Janet D. Fiero, has been an consultant with her own company, Bricolage Consulting, for 25 years. Her current passion is improving the ways in which citizens are engaged in influencing public policy. She is an associate of America Speaks, and she has earned a B.S. in Biochemistry, an MBA., and a Ph.D.
Dr. Nancy Glock-Grueneich Founder of HIGHER EDge, a non-profit institute helping build our capacity for a livable future, through strategically positioned dialogue, awareness of viable options, and acquisition of critical knowledge & skills. Formerly Vice President for Learning for the Foundation for California Community Colleges and a senior official in the Chancellor*s Office of the California Community Colleges for 13 years in charge of curriculum and staff development for its 65,000 staff and faculty, training over 2000 faculty and administrators, and approving new academic and vocational programs for its 108 colleges. She is currently working on a book entitled Remaking Our World: Strategic Conversations and Promising Breakthroughs and a text book on critical discourse, What Do You Mean, How Do You Know, and So What?: Making Sense and Coming to Consensus.
Joyce Diamond Consultant and Coaching in new paradigm learning systems conciliation, including Spherical Dynamics (www.sphericaldynamics.com), integral evolution of consciousness through the language of Energetics and Non-Violent and Non-Defensive Communication styles and Inter-cultural communication. Graduate of Holy Names College in Sociology & Religion. Professional Jazz Singer for thirty years, with experience abroad. African and Native American. See also Women Rise For Global Peace, Santa Cruz, CA.
Jennifer White Jennifer White, Founding Director of Root Systems Institute (www.rootsystemsinstitute.net), Director of Program Development for HIGHER EDge, and a professional singer, (Sferes & White) currently consults with the Continued Success Foundation providing services and support to individual and organizations seeking personal and global sustainability, with Learning for Living, a non-profit teaching life skills to college students and with the Boulder Institute of Sustainability. She has written and developed curricula in physics, psychology, wilderness experience, HIV/AIDS, and communications and ethics, and has been a technical communications consultant for optical engineering firms. Focusing on the "psychology of sustainability", her passion is to help people and organizations find how best to align what fulfills them most with what is of most benefit to our planet, and in the process letting go undue dependencies upon unsustainable lifestyles.
Ned Crosby Ned Crosby has pursued a career in public affairs, concentrating on democratic reforms. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1973. In the process of writing his thesis, he invented the Citizens Jury process, one of the leading new democratic processes invented in the 20th century. It has been used over 30 times in the United States, most recently (March, 2002) by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the issue of climate change. It has been used over 200 times in Britain since 1996 and is now beginning to be used more frequently in Australia. Since 1999 he and his wife, Pat Benn, have been seeking to find a way to get the Citizens Initiative Review established in Washington state or Oregon.
Pat Benn Patricia Benn is a teacher and democratic practitioner. She spent 24 years in the Robbinsdale School District in Minnesota teaching French and German. For six years in the 1980s, she headed a team of teachers whose students consistently won most of the top five prizes in the Minnesota French competitions. Her work in democracy started with the Robbinsdale Federation of Teachers. She served as president of the union 1976-78, at a time when there were about 1,000 members. She was known for the democratic way she ran the union. During that time, the union pioneered collaborative efforts in negotiations and increased teacher involvement with the school administration on education policies. Since 1999 she has worked with her husband, Ned Crosby, to promote the Citizens Initiative Review, a method for bringing trustworthy information to voters on initiatives.
John G. Bell John Bell is a graduate student in Whole Systems Design at Antioch University Seattle. He is Manager of System Development at the Learning Access Institute. John studied with Dr. Patrick J. Hill of The Evergreen State College in a 48 credit, upper-division program, the "Power and Limitations of Dialogue."
Robin R. Fenske Robin Fenske is a senior undergraduate at The Evergreen State College. She is focusing her studies on Systems Thinking in Earth, Biological and Social Sciences. Robin studied with Dr. Patrick J. Hill of The Evergreen State College in a 48 credit, upper-division program, the "Power and Limitations of Dialogue."
Patrick J. Hill Founder of the Federated Learning Communities at SUNY at Stony Brook, and co-founder of the Washington State Center for the Improvement of Undergraduate education which has overseen the development of learning communities in 500 colleges and universities. Provost at Evergreen (1983-1991). Have been teaching programs on the Power and Limitations of Dialogue for six years, with field components in Northern Ireland, and comparative Irish-American, Afro-American History. Publications focus on the nature of community.
Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz Dr. Westerhof-Shultz has more than fifteen years* experience teaching at the college/university level. She was a middle school social studies teacher and Vice President and Director of educational programs for a non-profit global education organization in
Abby Williamson Abby Williamson is Associate Director of the Saguaro Seminar at Harvard*s Kennedy School of Government, where she completed her Masters in Public Policy. For the past year, Williamson worked with Professor Archon Fung on mapping the field of deliberation. Before graduate school, Williamson served as Associate Director of the Eurasia Foundation*s Tbilisi, Georgia office.
Elena Fagotto Elena Fagotto is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard*s Kennedy School of Government, where she earned her Masters in Public Administration. She studies public deliberation, civic engagement in resource allocation, and transparency policy. Prior to that, she worked as a consultant on social and economic development projects in several emerging countries.
Pam Korza Pam Korza is co-director with Barbara Schaffer Bacon of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts. Animating Democracy fosters arts and humanities activity that encourages civic dialogue/engagement on contemporary issues. Supported in its first phase by the Ford Foundation, Animating Democracy supported 35 arts and humanities-based civic dialogue projects around the country. Animating Democracy continues to advance arts- and humanities-based civic engagement through convenings, case studies and publications, a web site, and services and programs. Pam provided research for and co-wrote the study, Animating Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force in Civic Dialogue. Pam partners with Schaffer Bacon in organizational assessment and planning and program design and evaluation for cultural organizations, state arts agencies, and private foundations.
Harold Fields Harold Fields was a problem solver in the software industry for over 30 years working with IBM and then the airline industry designing and implementing award-winning systems that are now used in over 100 countries. Harold has worked and taught in Hawaii, Canada, England, Spain, Switzerland, France, Holland, Kenya, and India. Harold learned quickly in the high tech world that technical solutions would not be accepted if the needs of the people who use them are not met. So he looked for many opportunities to enhance his skills at communications and group dynamics. He was one of the founders of Multi-Racial Families of Colorado, a support group for racially mixed families and those adopting children from a different race or ethnic group. For 5 years, Harold has been the facilitator for the monthly citywide racial dialogue that has been held at The Tattered Cover, Denver's most popular bookstore. He also conducts racial discussions at several churches in the metro area.
Holly Fulton Holly Fulton teaches English as a Second Language and French at a public high school in Denver, Colorado. Prior to teaching, she was an interpersonal skills and diversity trainer for public and private industries, which included running her own practice and delivering programs for training companies. She grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island and, as a direct descendant of Rhode Island*s Mark Anthony De Wolf, head of the largest slave trading family in early America, she participated as one of ten family members who retraced the Triangle Trade route in the video Traces of the Trade.
Chris Waldron Chris Waldron is currently a student at Andover Newton Theological School, pursuing interests in theology, social justice work, and world missions. Prior to seminary he worked in programs for adults and children with developmental disabilities as well as
Stella Yu Stella Yu has 35 years of experience in studio art, arts education, arts management, marketing, advertising and business development. She has served on numerous community boards; taught art in public schools; founded non-profit arts organizations; owned and operated a digital fine arts company and three graphic design and printing businesses. In 1999, Ms Yu launched "Arts Street" - a national award winning program in youth development - for the City and County of Denver.
Diana Brittain Diana Brittain has twenty years of experience as an actress, playwright and designer of children*s performance programs. She was trained in Atlanta and New York City, and worked with Ensemble Studio Theatre and 42nd Street Collective in NY. Diana managed the Performing Arts for Denver*s Children*s Museum and is currently working with youth in the juvenile justice system.
Karen Eberle-Smith With a modern dance and sculpture training, Karen Eberle-Smith has 11 years of experience in teaching art and science in non-school settings to youth with diverse, "at risk", low income background of nontraditional family structures. She also owns an art business designing and building furniture in wood, concrete and steel. Karen has been teaching Arts Street youth apprentices since 2001.
Len Krimerman Len has taught in both university and non-university settings for 40+ years. He has worked in and helped develop several worker owned enterprises and an equal number of support organizations for workplace democracy. He is writing a book on the need for civil society and public interest organizations to move out of their "voluntary" ghetto and share public authority and revenues with the geo-political state.
William R. Caspary Bill Caspary, MS Physics, U. Chicago, moved from physics, to peace activism, to PhD political science, Northwestern U. Commited to nonviolence, conflict-resolution, and dialogue, he has been obudsman, mediator, education reform consultant, and organizer. His book "Dewey on Democracy," interprets John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy as centered on dialogue. Emeritus Professor, Washington University, Adjunct Professor, Gallatin School at NYU, Editorial Board, GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing). He plays old time music on fiddle, banjo, and guitar.
Palma Strand Palma Strand is a lead organizer and co-founder of the Arlington Forum, a civic organizing initiative based in Arlington, Virginia, that seeks to reinvigorate democracy by creating sustainable civic relationships among community members within and across various groups and organizations. She came to this work through being an active parent and community member; she was herself a candidate for the Arlington School Board. A lawyer by training, Strand teaches Deliberative Democracy and Civic Organizing at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Melinda Patrician Melinda Patrician, one of the co-founders and lead organizer for the Arlington Forum, has 30 years of experience in media and public relations for public interest organizations. Patrician worked as a newspaper reporter and communications director before opening her own public relations firm in 1983. She joined the Washington, DC company of Fenton Communications in 1987 and subsequently worked as an independent consultant to a variety of civic and public interest organizations. Patrician viewed the building of civic capacity as an integral part of the public relations work she performed. She has merged that experience and her involvement with local, state and national advocacy and community organizations to inform her civic organizing work for the Arlington Forum.
Jim Rough Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation and has been presenting public and private seminars on it since 1990. Jim also originated the Wisdom Council, which is now being implemented in government agencies and tested in a national democratic experiment. He is author of the book, Society's Breakthrough! Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People and a long-time fan of dialogue. He participated in years of dialogue with the Guild for Psychological Studies and has originated many community dialogues --including the Port Townsend Conversation Cafe, the Dialogue Homeroom at the Creative Problem-solving Institute, and four years host of "The Jim Rough Show" on community access television. Plus, he's husband to Jean.
Jean Rough Jean Rough is a licensed psychotherapist with masters in psychology. She is founder of a nonprofit, which provided creative and therapeutic support for children. Her numerous presentations include at the Seattle C. G. Jung Society, Elderhostels and Head Start. For several years she practiced dialogue through the Guild for Psychological Studies. Previously she worked for Xerox Corporation and is currently a partner with Jim Rough & Assoc., Inc. offering seminars on Dynamic Facilitation. She recently facilitated her first Wisdom Council. For the past 31 years, she also has been partnering with Jim in marriage. They live in Port Townsend, WA and their son is in graduate school.
Mitch Saunders Mitch Saunders is a pioneer in the areas of personal resilience, leadership, social innovation, and the use of groups to sense and influence the future. He is the co-originator of Dynamic Dialogue, a powerful methodology for co-evolving individuals, the stories we live by and the institutions we depend on. In addition to coaching other pioneers who are "up to something", Mitch leads an ongoing research effort, in partnership with the John F. Fetzer Institute, called The Laboratory for Social Invention. Through collaboration with leaders from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University, the National League of Cities, Hewlett-Packard and other companies, he and his colleagues are developing reliable methods and tools to accelerate the discovery, evolution and implementation of socially valuable ideas. Earlier in his career, Mitch served as project leader for the Center for Organizational Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there, he led several MIT-sponsored action-research initiatives including the application of dialogue to catalyze conversion of a military base into a public university in California, and regional healthcare reform in Western Colorado.
Tree Bressen Tree Bressen is a group process consultant working with a wide variety of organizations on how to have meetings that are lively, productive, and connecting, and how to put their ideals into action. Her base is in intentional communities--groups of people who live together and have to deal with each other every day! Her website www.treegroup.info offers free articles and resources. Tree lives at Walnut St. Co-op in Eugene, Oregon.
Jan Elliott Jan Elliott is a Senior Associate with the Public Policy Forum, a Canadian independent non-profit organization devoted to promoting excellence in government through improved dialogue among business, governments, the voluntary sector, labour and citizens. She joined the Public Policy Forum as Vice President in 1999 to integrate her public policy experience and doctoral work. Her work involves creating neutral forums and spaces for multisectoral engagement about public issues, often among stakeholders who are deeply divided and with vested interests. An important part of her work has been to actively promote and develop deliberative processes involving the public. An integral aspect of all of these processes involving leaders and ordinary citizens is creating connections to governance and decision-makers at all levels of government in Canada. She designed and implemented the first deliberative poll involving citizens in Canada and continues to innovate approaches to engage citizens in democracy.
Barnett Pearce Barnett Pearce is a teacher, facilitator, and theorist. He has consulted with communities and organizations, facilitated public and private meetings, and trained professionals in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. He is a Professor in the School of Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate Institute (www.fielding.edu), a member of the Public Dialogue Consortium, and co-principal of Pearce Associates, Inc.
Hal Saunders Hal Saunders is Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation and Chairman and President of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD). For twenty years, he worked at the National Security Council (NSC) Staff in the White House (1961-74) or the State Department (1974-81) at the center of U.S. policymaking toward the Middle East and South Asia. Since leaving government in 1981, he has developed and practiced the process of sustained dialogue*a "public peace process"* to transform racial and ethnic conflicts. Through the IISD, he moderates dialogues among citizens outside government*from the civil war in Tajikistan, the military stalemate in Armenia-Azerbaijan-Nagorno Karabakh, and the deep tensions among Arabs, Europeans, and Americans. He is collaborating with established organizations in South Africa, New Zealand, and the Americas to embed sustained dialogue in their programs. He supports a student-managed network that conducts sustained dialogues to improve relationships on more than a dozen college campuses.
Patricia A. Wilson Dr. Patricia A. Wilson is Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas in Austin. She teaches methods of community participation, group process skills, and participatory international development. She is preparing her forthcoming book, Deep Democracy: the Inner Practice of Civic Engagement.
Craig Hamilton Craig Hamilton is managing editor of the award-winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine, and a member of a thriving spiritual community based on Andrew Cohen*s teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment. In this capacity, he has helped to pioneer "Enlightened Communication," a form of dialogue focused specifically on the evolution of consciousness.
Lee Nichol Lee Nichol has been a Bohmian dialogue trainer and participant since 1986, when he was introduced to the process by David Bohm. Bohm, one of the more prominent physicists of the 20th century, was widely known for his causal interpretation of quantum mechnics, his radical vision of natural process (the implicate order), and his groundbreaking work in social dialogue. Nichol collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of education and dialogue from 1980 until Bohm's death in 1992, and is editor of Bohm's On Dialogue, On Creativity, and The Essential David Bohm (all from Routledge). He currently teaches meditative phenomenology at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, CA.
Ray Seigfried Ray Seigfried is Senior Vice President at Christiana Care Health System, a large hospital organization located in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He is Chairman of the Board at the Wilmington Charter High School, a school dedicated to the studies of math and science. He also serves as adjunct professor at Penn State University Delaware County branch, where he teaches a class entitled "Wholeness and Dialogue." He received a Master Degree in Administration from Antioch University.
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Priya Parker is the Program Director of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network at the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, based in Washington D.C. Parker is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, where she chaired and co-founded UVA's Sustained Dialogue branch. During her time as the SD UVA chair at UVA, the student group conducted 26 year-long dialogue groups, involving 300+ students in dialogue groups, and trained over 40 student moderators. She now works full time spreading Sustained Dialogue to other college, university and high school campuses across the country. She is deeply interested in dialogue and deliberation as tools for giving citizens the capacity to improve their own communities.
