SOCIAL JUSTICE
MEDIATION INSTITUTE 
A multicultural co-training team
will conduct both weeks of the
Social Justice Mediation Institute
Trainer Biographies
Leah Wing, Ed.D.
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Leah, a member of the faculty in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst since 2002, has taught Dispute Resolution since 1993. Her recent research and teaching applies Critical Race theory to mediation, reconciliation in colonized and postcolonial societies, and issues of environmental justice.
She has been a mediator and trainer since 1985, working with over 100 educational institutions and non-profits on the intersections between oppression, diversity, and conflict resolution. Leah developed an approach to mediation training and intervention that incorporates a social justice lens and this has served as the basis of a number of her publications and over 50 presentations at national and international conferences on conflict resolution, multicultural education, and race and ethnicity in education.
Leah has offered over 100 trainings in social justice mediation over the past thirteen years, training over 2500 people in this approach to conflict intervention. And to date, 16 colleges, universities, high schools, and non-profits have created and implemented mediation programs based on the social justice mediation model. Other organizations have utilized the model by offering the training as a skill enhancement for employees or students and to enhance the culture and environment of a campus.
Leah served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Association of Conflict Resolution (2002-2008) and is a member of the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly. She is a member of Healing Through Remembering, Belfast, North of Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Leah co-directs the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) and has been working as part of a National Science Foundation funded research team exploring issues of power and identity as they manifest in online conflicts and in dispute resolution strategies.
Flyer (in pdf) |