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 to courts and local programs* develop and provide trainings for court personnel to advance and promote ADR * monitor legislation, analyze and prepare report of potential impacts to ADR services

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 private residences.

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 Liepa, Latvia; and Beit Jala, West Bank Palestinian Territory. Three return trips in successive years (2015-2017) to Latvia. • Exercised skills in cross-cultural communication; adaptation to foreign culture; introductory language familiarization with Spanish, Latvian, and Arabic; relationship-building for overseas partnerships; ethnographic research; social media management; editing of letters and articles; supervision of camp projects; English-language instruction; crafts inventory and sales; buildings and grounds management and light construction.Details: • 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. • English language instruction to four classes with 20 students each. • Informal ethnographic research: interviewed ten persons, attended Kairos International Conference, Global Leadership Summit, and presented findings in 3000 word report, blog, and before three church audiences in New Orleans.

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 additional visual elements to provide media context.• 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 exhibits, construction of benches for seating, rearrangement of marble busts and furniture, label corrections, and additional paintings, maps, and fabrication of new graphic panels.• 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.• AmeriCorps VISTA 2008-2010 and liaison with Tulane University's Center for Public Service.

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 Roxbury.* Trained students, teachers, and administrators on MS Office and other software.* Inventoried and re-purposed hardware to optimize the school's computer-learning environment of over 50 computers.* Contracted with business partners to expand network infrastructure from four to 19 classrooms and offices, performed punch down and server management.

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.