Be The Change
Happy Thanksgiving!
Welcome! Whether you are here for career coaching, to explore conflict resolution and peacebuilding work, or to learn more about international education, I’m glad you have arrived!
I’m based in the Washington, DC area and work with clients and partners by Zoom during the pandemic. My career has spanned college and university teaching, practicing law, teaching in the Fulbright program, think tank work, and now career coaching and consulting.
I’ve been interviewed on The TODAY Show, featured in the Washington Post Magazine, and given a TEDx talk. I’ve published op-eds in The New York Times, Baltimore Sun, and other publications. I’ve enjoyed writing about the fields I’ve been part of, publishing three books – Peace Jobs: A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace (IAP 2016), Peacebuilding in Community Colleges: A Teaching Resource (USIP Press 2013), and Legal Research and Writing (Delmar 1996). I’m also the president and co-founder of the Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education, Inc.
I look forward to working together. To schedule an appointment, just reach out here. You can learn more about my work and background here.
Consulting
I work with organizations, businesses, not for profits, and educational institutions looking to make change and advance their objectives. Find out about consulting.
Coaching
If you are seeking a career change or searching for new horizons, let’s talk. Find out about coaching.
Speaking
I speak on a range of international, education, career, and peacebuilding related issues. Find out about my speaking activities.
November’s Recommended Job Sites
My Blog
Collaboration within Public Health and Environmental Justice: ACR event, 12/1/20
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm ET Registration required: https://bit.ly/39dv2jd2020 continues to be a challenging year with an ongoing pandemic, greater reckoning in racial justice, increasing urgency in climate impacts, and ongoing environmental decision-making and policy challenges. For EPP practitioners in collaboration and conflict resolution, we are challenged in this moment to see theContinue reading “Collaboration within Public Health and Environmental Justice: ACR event, 12/1/20”
PeaceCon 2020: A Young Professionals Discussion on Launching a Career, 12/9/20
I’m looking forward to PeaceCon2020. On day three, I will be hosting a panel discussion on peacebuilding careers. Join us! Go here to register.
How to Effectively Network on Social Platforms, WaPo, 11/22/20
Social networking platforms are important today. This piece in yesterday’s Washington Post by Kate Johanns provides some ideas on how to do it!
Biden-Harris Administration Application for Political Appointments
Today, our country faces multiple crises that impact our lives, livelihoods, and the very soul of our nation: the worst pandemic in over 100 years, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the most compelling call for racial justice since the ’60s, and the undeniable realities and accelerating threats of climate change. But, forContinue reading “Biden-Harris Administration Application for Political Appointments”
Jerry Barrett: Historian of the ADR Movement
I learned recently that Jerry Barrett had passed away. Here is his obituary on Mediate.com. I meet Jerry a number of years ago after his book on the history of the ADR field was published – A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Story of a Political, Social, and Cultural Movement – which is theContinue reading “Jerry Barrett: Historian of the ADR Movement”
National Career Development Day!
Today is National Career Development Day! The day was established by the National Career Development Association to advance career awareness. This 2011 USA Today article offers some suggestions on how to advance your job prospects. If you are considering a peacebuilding, development, humanitarian or conflict resolution related career, consider purchasing my book Peace Jobs: AContinue reading “National Career Development Day!”
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