Educational Degrees

• Post-doctoral work at JFK School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2005
  
• Post-doctoral work at National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, USA 2001
  
• Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, USA, J.D. 1998
  
• Antioch University, Seattle, Washington, USA, B.A. 1993
  
• Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, Washington, USA, A.A.S. 1981

Professional Licenses

• Member, Washington State Bar Association
  

Past Professorship or University Appointments

• Faculty, Public and Tribunal Administration, Northwest Indian College, USA (2002)
  
• Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil (1999)
  
• Visiting faculty, Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (1998)

Other Academic Affiliations

• Visiting Lecturer, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington (2001, 2007)
  
• Visiting Lecturer, Intellectual Property Department, Suffolk University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts (1999)
  
• Visiting Lecturer, Womens Studies, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (1998)
  
• Visiting Lecturer, Indigenous People and the Nation State, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1998)
  
• Visiting Lecturer, First Nations Environmental Law Program, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont (1998)

Language Fluency: English

Language Proficiency: Limited reading proficiency of Brazialian Portugese

Conflict Resolution In-Country Experience

Training/Teaching

• Brazil - A Mesa Redonda “Autonomias Indígenas Contemporâneas: debates interculturais” foi aprovada para a participação na Reunião Equatorial de Antropologia e X Reunião de Antropólogos Norte-Nordeste, que será realizada na cidade de Aracaju/SE, na Universidade Federal de Sergipe. (outubro de 2007),
  
• Brazil - Processor Tradicionais Para A Resolucao Das Disputas,” Seminario, Grupo de Estudos em Relacoes Interetnicas, Anthropology Department, Universidade de Brasilia.  (1999)

Consulting

• Brazil - Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution on land rights with Conselho Indígena de Roraima (circom@terra.com.br) (November 1999)
  
• Brazil - Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution on environmental conflicts with Socioambiental.  (November 1999)

Research

• Brazil - Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution among Brazilian Indians at Socioambiental.  (November 1999)
  
• Guatemala - Onsite methodological research of the resolutions of conflicts of the Guatemalan Mayan peoples (1998)

Other Activity

• Finland - “A Contrastable Analysis:  Northwest Indian Tribes Dispute Resolution vis--vis the American Legal System”, Second International Conference on Cross Cultural Studies, session:  Constructing Indigeneity.  (July 1998)

International Cultural Experience

Professional: Brazil, Chile, Finland, Guatemala, Slovakia, Sweden

Service Areas Significant Experience

• Conciliation, facilitation & mediation education
  
• Consultation and training in conflict mitigation or prevention
  
• Nonviolent communication and dispute resolution processes
  
• Public dialogues: Facilitating meetings and forums open to the public; building capacity and local resources
  
• Restorative justice
  
• Role of rule of law and integration of ADR in post-conflict communities
  

Publications

• A Walking Path to Understand the Roots of International Law and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (October 2006)
  
• Wisdom for the Future from Lessons of the Past:  Native American Family Mediation (Winter 2002)
  
• Book review, The Ethnic Conflict Resolution Digest,  INCORE, Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity.  The University of Ulster, United Nations University, Northern Ireland.  P. Huth, Standing Your Ground.  Volume 2, Issue 1, p 6, (February 1999). 
  
• A Contrastable Analysis:  Northwest Indian Tribes Dispute Resolution vis--vis the American Legal System, (October 1998)

Last Revised on 2/27/2008