Alumni News
LEE BRIGGS (M.S. ’99) is in Skopje, Macedonia, working as a consultant trainer/facilitator for local and international organizations, as well as serving as the director for a local nongovernmental organization called Agency for Rescue and Training, International.
RAMONA BUCK (M.S. ’88) is now the public policy director for the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) in Towson, Maryland. MACRO is the successor to the Maryland Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission and focuses on promoting conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution in courts, business, government, schools, communities, families, and public policy.
JAYNE DOCHERTY (Ph.D. ’98) has joined the faculty at the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. Syracuse University Press is in the process of publishing her book, Learning Lessons from Waco.
GEOFF DRUCKER (M.S. ’97) was recently promoted to chief counsel, dispute resolution and prevention, for the U.S. Postal Service.
FRANK DUKES (Ph.D. ’92) cowrote “Collaboration: A Guide for Environmental Advocates,” a handbook to assist environmental advocates in determining whether and how to effectively participate in collaborative decision making.
LINDA M. JOHNSTON (Ph.D. ’01) is teaching conflict resolution in the master’s degree program at Antioch University McGregor. She is teaching the research and theory classes and also serving as an adjunct professor in the Weekend College, teaching a course titled Race and Ethnicity. Johnston went to the Ukraine for two months this past spring to teach macro-theory to doctoral students at Taurida National University. She also serves on the executive board of the International Peace Research Association Foundation and administers the Senesh Fellowship for that organization.
SOOSAIPILLAI KEETHAPONCALAN (M.S. ’97) successfully defended his dissertation Underage Soldiers and Intervention: The Global Challenge of Violence Production and Conflict Resolution on Aug. 23, 2001, and was awarded his Ph.D. by Nova Southeastern University. He also won a fellowship to conduct research at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, for which he was based in Geneva from November 2000 to April 2001. As part of a team of four scholars from South Asia, Keetha investigated security issues and internal conflicts in that region. The U.N. is expected to publish the research report by the time this newsletter comes out.
MARY RYAN (M.S. ’98) was promoted recently to the position of workplace alternative dispute resolution program manager for the Department of the Navy. The job gives her the chance to travel to Japan, Okinawa, Guam, and Puerto Rico, as well as to many locations within the United States, to advise senior management on matters concerning the use of alternative dispute resolution and to train candidates for the Navy’s Mediator Certification Program.
LANCEWOODBURY (M.S. ’95) recently completed an M.B.A. from Purdue University and in 2000 was named a principal at Kennedy and Coe, LLC, a professional services firm serving Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. He provides mediation and facilitation services to the firm’s clients and manages a group of offices in western Kansas.