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Leah Wing
Director of Dispute Resolution - National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and Lecturer - Legal Studies Department, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (email: lwing@legal.umass.edu)
Leah is on the faculty in the Legal Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst where she has taught Dispute Resolution since 1993. Her recent research and teaching applies Critical Race theory to mediation and issues of environmental justice. She has been a mediator and trainer since 1985, working with over one hundred educational institutions and non-profits on the intersections between oppression, diversity, and conflict resolution. Leah developed an approach to mediation training and intervention that incorporates a social justice lens and this has served as the basis of a number of her publications and presentations at national and international conferences. Since 2002 Leah has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Conflict Resolution and as a member of the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly (formerly Mediation Quarterly).
Leah has worked with NCTDR for several years exploring issues of power and identity as they manifest in online conflicts and in dispute resolution strategies. She is a member of the research team based at NCTDR and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and is a consultant to the National Mediation Board in a National Science Foundation project on online dispute resolution technology and labor mediation.
