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Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness? |
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Start Date: | 4/7/2022 | Start Time: | 8:00 AM |
End Date: | 4/7/2022 | End Time: | 10:00 AM |
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Event Description:
To RSVP for Zoom link, email mvolpe@jjay.cuny.edu
Waiting Room opens 8am, Talk starts at 8:30am
CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College
and
Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York
present
Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness?
In 2020, after the murder
of George Floyd, ADR professors Sharon Press and Ellen Deason began an
exploration on how white supremacy shows up in their professional and
personal life. This led to an article entitled “Mediation: Embedded
Assumptions of Whiteness?” 22 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 453
(2021). In the article, they look at mediation through the lenses of
tone policing (mediation ground rules); color-blindness (focus on the
future); white silence (neutrality); and more. The speakers will start with a
presentation to raise questions to consider and then provide an
opportunity for discussion and reflection.
Sharon
Press is Director of the Dispute Resolution Institute and Professor of
Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, MN. Press currently
serves as Co-President of Community Mediation Minnesota and serves on
the boards of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and
Community Mediation and Restorative Services. Press is a Florida
Supreme Court certified county and family mediator and on Minnesota’s
Rule 114 Roster of Civil Facilitative and Hybrid Neutrals. She also
mediates regularly in Conciliation, Housing, and Harassment Courts and
for the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. Prior to joining Mitchell
Hamline Law, Press served as director of the Florida Dispute Resolution
Center where she was responsible for the ADR programs for the Florida
state court system during its formative years. Press is the recipient of
numerous professional awards, including the Mary Parker Follett Award
for Excellence and Innovation in Dispute Resolution presented by the
Association for Conflict Resolution and CPR Institute for Dispute
Resolution’s Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field
and Future of Dispute Resolution. Press was the Association for
Conflict Resolution’s representative to the Drafting Committee for the
Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators adopted by the AAA, ABA and
ACR. She received her B.A. from The George Washington University School
of Public and International Affairs and her J.D. from The George
Washington University National Law Center.
Ellen E. Deason is the Joanne Wharton Murphy / Classes of 1965 and 1973 Professor in Law Emerita at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio, where she taught Mediation, International Commercial Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Procedure, and other Dispute Resolution courses. She serves as Reporter for two Uniform Law Commission Committees related to Dispute Resolution and Litigation. She is a past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) ADR Section. Her article Beyond ‘Managerial Judges’: Appropriate Roles in Settlement was selected as the best article of 1997 by the AALS ADR Section. She has been honored with multiple teaching awards, including the Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Deason is a graduate of Carleton College, which has selected her for an Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, Oregon State University (Biological Oceanography), and Michigan Law School. She clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and arbitrator Howard Holtzman. She and Sharon Press are co-authors of Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness?, 22 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 453 (2021). For more, see https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/ellen-e-deason/ .
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