Catherine McCracken is a solo practitioner mediator and trainer based in San Francisco, CA, with 20+ years of diverse experience in environmental and public issue dispute resolution, collaborative problem solving, mediation, and facilitation. She received a Master of Environmental Management degree in 1993 from Duke University's School of the Environment and a Bachelor of Science in Speech degree in 1986 from Emerson College. She has designed and conducted sessions on collaboration, conflict resolution, and working with communities for the International Association for Public Participation's annual conference, the USEPA's national community involvement conference, the American Planning Association national conference, and USEPA Region 9 staff. Catherine has completed extensive training in environmental dispute resolution, conflict resolution, mediation, team dynamics, interest-based problem solving, facilitation, negotiations, cross cultural awareness and communication, workplace disputes, and business/commercial mediation. She was lead or co-lead trainer for the Community Boards (San Francisco, CA) Basics of Mediation 40-hour training from 2010-2012, training 176 individuals during that time.She was a volunteer mediator with:-San Francisco Superior Court's Self-Represented Litigants Program, mediating small claims cases-Guardianship Mediation Program of the Center for Human Development (Contra Costa County, CA)-Office of Citizen Complaints (now the Department of Police Accountability, San Francisco, CA)Catherine is a member of the following professional organizations: Association for Conflict Resolution and the International Association for Public Participation.Specialties: MediationFacilitationWorking with GroupsPublic ParticipationCollaboration