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Jackie Goodrich | Fred Hanson | Jill Moscowitz | Carol F. Simkin
Jackie Goodrich, cofounder of Arts Mediation Group, has practiced mediation since 1999 at Safe Horizon, where she mediates cases in the Community DisputeResolution Program, including Family Court and Civil Court cases. She is a mediator for NYPD's Civilian Complaint Review Board and the NY State Department of Labor and is a mediation coach in programs conducted by Safe Horizon and Columbia Law School's Mediation Clinic. Ms Goodrich's training has been primarily with the Center for Mediation in Law (CML), with which she is affiliated and whose understanding-based model of mediation she practices. Her work with CML includes production of a mediation training videotape in collaboration with Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation. Ms Goodrich's work as a mediator was preceded by a 20-year career in modern dance and theater.
Fred Hanson has practiced mediation in New York City since 2000, while continuing a decades-long career in theatre as a stage manager, production supervisor, executive producer, and associate director of many Broadway shows.
He received mediation training and certification at Safe Horizon's Community Dispute Resolution Program, where he mediates general community cases, custody and visitation, PINS (persons in need of supervision), and juvenile delinquency, in addition to Criminal Court cases referred by the District Attorney. Mr. Hanson also mediates for Project Resolve at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, where he is on the board of supervising mediators, and for the Midtown Community Court, where he also facilitates Community Impact Panels and other group conflicts. He completed training in divorce mediation at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. As a teacher and trainer Mr. Hanson has coached and mentored new mediators in Safe Horizon's mediation training and certification program, and coached students in the mediation clinic at Columbia University School of Law.
Jill Sarah Moscowitz has over fifteen years of experience in helping government and nonprofit organizations to build strong relationships and strong workplaces. Jill Sarah is a court-appointed employment mediator for the Superior Court of NJ and also mediates for the United States Postal Service. By applying a variety of dispute resolution skills such as mediation, facilitation, and coaching, Jill Sarah has been successful in resolving hundreds of disputes. She has facilitated dozens of meetings with diverse groups with regard to age, gender, religion and ethnicity.
Her academic training is from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she received a Masters Degree in Public Health. She is a candidate for a graduate certificate in Organizational Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University in May 2010. In addition, she studied Into the Heart of Mediation at Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative, and she has been trained in Nonviolent Communication, Formal Consensus Decision Making, Open Space Technology and Coaching Fundamentals. She is past TriChairperson of the Association for Conflict Resolution Workplace Section. Her article entitled Understanding Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations is published in the Winter 2007 issue of the magazine of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Jill Sarah traveled to India in 1996 and to East Timor in 2000. She comes from a family of artists and maintains a regular dance practice in New York City. For more information or to view recommendations, see www.moscowitzmediation.com or www.linkedin.com/in/jillsarahmoscowitz.
Following her graduation from New York University School of Law in 1973, Ms. Simkin became an active trial lawyer, negotiator and advisor in the area of copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property matters, across a wide spectrum of business areas, including the literary and visual arts, and handled cases which established new ground for those trying to protect creative rights. Among her areas of expertise is the area of fictional character rights. She is admitted to numerous courts of appeals and district courts and has appeared before many such courts throughout the country in her career. In 2001, she gave up her law practice to become a full-time mediator and facilitator and has been appointed to the Mediation Panel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Roster of Neutrals of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. A cofounder of Arts Mediation Group, she uses the Understanding-Based Model of Mediation and has received extensive mediation training from the Center for Mediation in the Law and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.
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