Michael Barr Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

* administer mediator certification program and oversee training requirements* determine, interpret, and communicate standards and legislative requirements for ADR practitioners and trainers* assist in identifying long-range, court-connected ADR needs and establishing objectives and strategies to meet those needs* provide ADR-related technical assistance.

New Orleans, LA / Washington D.C.

• Project management for over 30 clients, private - nonprofit - for profit, with home improvement or curatorial focus: scope, estimate, negotiate contract, organize work flow, source and purchase materials, execute plan.
• Database organization to assist with alumni outreach for development office at Wesley Theological Seminary.
• Assistant to artist, founder and director of Luce Center for Religion and the Arts, on “Last Supper” mural installed in refectory of Wesley Theological Seminary
• Clients include: Wesley Theological Seminary, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, Soren Christensen Gallery, Southern Food and Beverage Museum, All Nations Fellowship, Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church, and over thirty.

Washington D.C.

• Consultant on "Narratives for Peace" project for international development organization with team of American University graduate students.
• On sub-team of three, led research and identification of twenty technical tools to give peacebuilders options to counter polarizing narratives in society and develop media literacy.
• Devised a framework to distinguish operational from conceptual tools and categorized tools according to functional capacity; developed a set of six criteria to assist analysis of the embedded narrative context.
• Researched and composed 2500 word essay on the importance of narratives for peace and its interrelationship with story-telling.
• Served on editing team for the final project; note-taker for two conferences; interviewed four experts on subject matter.

Liepaja, Latvia / West Bank, Palestinian Territory

• Individual immersion with faith-based civil society organizations in international development on three continents: Central America, Eastern Europe, Middle East. Specifically: La Toma, Guatemala; Liepaja, Riga, and.
• Exercised skills in cross-cultural communication; adaptation to foreign culture; introductory language familiarization with Spanish, Latvian, and Arabic; relationship-building for overseas partnerships; ethnographic.
• Wesley Camp, Liepaja: staff mentor and crafts leader for a United Methodist camp for kids, summers 2014 - 2017.
• Hope Center, Liepa: Team renovation of a residential facility which serves unwed teenage mom's, summer 2014.
• Riga 1st, United Methodist Church: basement renovation, summer 2014-15.Beit Jala, West Bank, Palestine: Sept - Dec 2014
• Hope Secondary School: Assistant to board chair person with grant-writing and letters to supporters; edited communications, wrote articles, and managed social media sites.

New Orleans, LA

• Curator on Pictures of the Year International exhibit highlighting acclaimed work of photo-journalists. Conceived exhibit layout, fabricated labels, executed hanging, and collaborated with graphic designer on.
• Advised remedial enhancements to permanent collection and long-running exhibits based on trends in audience engagement and exhibit design principles. Ideas implemented include: re-hang and re-lighting of three.
• Wrote grant for exhibit and received $1250 of $1500 requested.
• Developed photography exhibit for Hurricane Rita corridor.

New Orleans

• Collections management responsibility for the first, comprehensive systematic inventory of the permanent collection consisting of over 3000 individual art objects in mixed media.
• Updated and edited PastPerfect database entries with condition reports, descriptions, and digital images. Including: verified, reconciled, or created donation records, loan receipts, or object files.
• Developed organizational system for the collection and created additional storage space.
• Preparator for Educational Gallery, 17 exhibits (some with over 100 pieces) representing a collaboration between a local artist and a school group
• Team player on installation of 50 major exhibits.
• Supervised 4 service learning classes and recruited 5 interns from Tulane University.

Boston, MA

• Outreach and event planning administrative tasks associated with weekly forum registration hosting national figures in politics and culture; Profiles in Courage school contests, and various conference evaluations.
• Stream-lined mailing lists of over 1000
• Researched, edited, and developed curriculum for the Urban Scholars program.
• Facilitated 5 dialogues and role-plays for urban and suburban high school students with the Consensus Building Institute’s Workable Peace program.
• Executed event planning administrative tasks associated with weekly forum registration hosting national figures in politics and culture; Profiles in Courage school contests, and various conference evaluations.
• Docent for school groups

Greater Boston Area

• Managed help-desk logs for the downtown District office.
• Performed troubleshooting of computer systems hardware and software always with focus on developing end-user capability.
• Worked with team of eight to install ethernet cable, port punch downs, and server configuration in thirty schools for Boston Net Year 2000.

Boston / Roxbury

* Worked collaboratively on a team of nine (each at different schools and organized through the Boston Plan for Excellence LEF), to design curriculum and conduct workshops for parents and teachers.* As sole technology coordinator, I managed the troubleshooting and expanded technological resources for award-winning inner-city Mason Elementary School in.

101st Airborne, Ft. Campbell, KY

Earned: Air Assault Badge, Army Achievement Medal, National Service Award, and Excellence in Physical Fitness certificates.Honorable Discharge

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Relations - Peace And Conflict Resolution, 3.75

Activities and Societies: President AU Negotiation Project, Fall 2016 / Acting President AU Creative Peace Initiatives, 2016-2018 /.

Master'S Theological Studies, With Honors, Theology/Theological Studies, 3.95

Activities and Societies: National Capitol Seminarian in Public Theology, Spring 2017 / Arts and Theology Practicum, assistant on "Last.

Alm, Museum Studies, 3.6 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Harvard InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship / Sanders Theatre at Memorial Hall usher Thesis: Case study.

Program On Negotiation

Activities and Societies: Harvard Mediation Program, October 2005 • 40 hour training, Mediation • 12 hour, Landlord - Tenant Mediation.