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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 an extensive background in the fields of labor relations and healthcare, where she has developed skills in organizational development, training, negotiation, and conflict resolution. She is a Certified Transformative Mediator and a member of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators and the Association for Conflict Resolution. Ms Moscowitz is a court appointed mediator for the New Jersey Superior Court and a volunteer mediator in the Municipal Courts of Hudson County and Essex County. She is also a contract mediator with the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, where she mediates for the Transportation Security Administration. Ms Moscowitz received a master's degree in public health from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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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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