SOCIAL JUSTICE
MEDIATION INSTITUTE 
A multicultural co-training team
will conduct both weeks of the
2008 Social Justice Mediation Institute
Trainer Biographies
Leah Wing, Ed.D.
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Leah, a member of the faculty in the Legal Studies Department 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 98 trainings in social justice mediation over the past thirteen years, training over 2000 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.
Since 2002 Leah has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Conflict Resolution and as a member of the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly (formerly Mediation Quarterly). She is a member of the Storytelling Subcommittee of the Healing Through Remembering Project, Belfast, North of Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Leah has worked with the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR) for several years exploring issues of power and identity as they manifest in online conflicts and in dispute resolution strategies. She is a member of the research team based at CITDR and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and is a consultant to the National Mediation Board in a National Science Foundation project on online dispute resolution technology and labor mediation.
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