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Steve Greenwood, Deputy Director of Oregon Programs
sgreenw@pdx.edu
As Deputy Director of Oregon Programs in the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State University, Steve Greenwood oversees Oregon Consensus and Oregon Solutions. Steve has a long history in environmental and public policy work. As Director of Oregon Solutions, Steve worked with the City of Eugene, Lower Columbia Solutions Group, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the University of Oregon and others on a variety of public policy projects. Previously, as Western Regional Administrator for DEQ, Steve negotiated a state agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and federal fisheries agencies to coordinate Endangered Species Act requirements with the Clean Water Act. Steve is former Board President of the Oregon Environmental Council.
Elaine Hallmark, Oregon Consensus Senior Associate
elaineh@pdx.edu
 As Senior Associate, Elaine Hallmark advises on collaborative processes and provides training on collaborative government for NPCC. Elaine served as Director of Oregon Consensus from program inception in 2003 until January 2009. Elaine is a founding member and Board President of Beyond War, an international non-profit educational organization that models and promotes the means for living without war. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Association of Conflict Resolution, Environmental Public Policy Section and former Co-chair of the Section. She is also a former Chair of the Oregon Mediation Association Ethics Committee. Elaine served four years on the former Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission, including three years as founding Chair.
As a private practitioner with Confluence Northwest and later with Hallmark Pacific Group, Elaine mediated numerous multi-party disputes about the environment, land use, natural resources, business and employment issues in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. She served as an assistant General Counsel to the Bonneville Power Administration, US Department of Energy, in the 1980s.
Elaine is known for her ability to work with contentious groups and deal with technical issues, and has received numerous awards for her work in alternative dispute resolution in Oregon, including the Oregon State Bar’s Lezak Award of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Appropriate Dispute Resolution, and the Lewis and Clark Law School Outstanding Environmental Alumni Award.
Elaine has a J.D. from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and a B.A. from George Washington University.
Greg Wolf, NPCC Director
gwolf@pdx.edu
 Greg Wolf worked for seven years as the Community Policy Advisor for Oregon Governor Kitzhaber. In that capacity, he had primary responsibility for programs in the Departments of Transportation; Economic Development; Land Conservation and Development; and Housing. Greg served as the Governor's Sustainability and Dispute Resolution Advisor, and before that, as the Assistant Director of the Department of Land Conservation and Development. He brings more than 25 years of experience working in state and local government and expertise in consensus processes. He co-founded Oregon's Dispute Resolution Program in 1989.
Connie Ozawa, Research Director
ozawac@pdx.edu
 Connie P. Ozawa, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, has taught at Portland State University since 1994. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in Geography from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Ozawa has 20 years of experience conducting research and teaching negotiation and collaborative decision making in the domestic and international sphere. Her international work includes training Micronesian diplomats as they assumed increasing levels of responsibility in international trade and diplomacy, environmental professionals charged with broadening public participation in Portugal, and Chinese land use planners exploring sustainable pathways to development. Dr. Ozawa also has substantial experience in evaluating collaborative planning processes. Most recently, she evaluated three collaborative land use and environmental planning processes with significant transportation elements in the state of Oregon. One of her main areas of research interest is the use of scientific and technical information in participatory public decision making. Dr. Ozawa is author of Recasting Science: Consensus-Based Procedures in Public Policy Making (Westview, 1991); Editor of The Portland Edge: Challenges and Successes in Growing Communities (Island Press, 2004), and author of a chapter called, “Putting Science in Its Place,” in Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict: New Institutions for Collaborative Planning, (Scholz and Stiftel, 2004).
Jamie Damon, Community Consensus Director
jdamon@pdx.edu
Jamie Damon has worked as a mediator and facilitator guiding individuals and communities through disputes to develop working relationships since 1986. She comes to Oregon Consensus from Portland based, JLA Public Involvement, a public process consulting firm, where she was a Principal and Senior Associate. Jamie has guided communities, and local, state and federal agencies in Oregon, Washington and Alaska through hundreds of contentious issues involving land use, transportation, water resources, emergency services, and organizational development. In addition, she has taught classes and training in mediation, facilitation and public process.
Jamie has an M.A. in International Conflict Transformation, is the past Chair of the Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission, and has held leadership positions with the Oregon Mediation Association.
Gail McEwen, Community and Economic Development Program Manager
mceweng@pdx.edu
 Gail McEwen has nearly 30 years of experience working on land use and natural resource policy issues. Gail worked for three years as a coastal planner for Tillamook County and eight years for the Department of Land Conservation and Development, primarily as North Coast Field Representative.
Gail worked for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for fifteen years. Her job duties included providing policy direction and technical assistance on land use, energy facility siting, and natural resource damage assessment. From 2003-2005, Gail served as ODFW’s Sustainability Coordinator. In that capacity, she worked with the Governor's Natural Resources Office, state, federal and local agencies, tribal governments, advocacy and special interest groups, landowners and the public to develop the Oregon Conservation Strategy. Throughout her career, she has worked collaboratively with others to resolve multi-party land use and natural resource public policy disputes.
Gail has a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School, a M.S. in Oceanography from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Geology from Georgia State University.
Turner Odell , Natural Resources Program Manager
todell@pdx.edu
As Natural Resources Program Manager for Oregon Consensus, Turner Odell fosters the use of collaborative approaches for addressing public policy issues related to natural resources and the environment. Turner has nearly 20 years of experience in environmental and natural resource law and regulation, including litigation, administrative practice, agency negotiations, and mediation of complex, multiparty environmental issues.
Before joining Oregon Consensus, Turner was a Senior Mediator in the Portland, Oregon office of RESOLVE, a non-profit organization providing neutral consensus-building services for resolving environmental, energy, and health-related public policy issues. At RESOLVE, Turner’s practice focused on designing, convening, and facilitating policy dialogues, interagency and stakeholder workgroups, and other agreement-focused multi-party processes involving complex scientific, environmental, and public policy issues.
Prior to RESOLVE, Turner was a senior attorney with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C., where he conducted research and analysis, and facilitated stakeholder groups. As counsel to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Pennsylvania office, a regional environmental organization, Turner worked to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Earlier, Turner worked as a Senior Project Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and as an Associate with the Fried Frank law firm in New York.
Turner received his B.S. from Cornell University in resource economics and his J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law – Newark.
Laurel Singer, Training and Human Services Program Manager
laurels@pdx.com
 Laurel Singer, MS, LPC, manages NPCC's program providing training and practicum experience to students in conflict resolution graduate programs and law school within the Oregon University System. She also works to foster the use of collaborative approaches for addressing public policy issues in Human Services, including education, health care, housing and diverse communities. Laurel is a long time mediator and facilitator with expertise in designing and implementing the most effective process possible to assist an organization, public body, or collection of stakeholders in making decisions and resolving conflicts constructively and collaboratively. Laurel brings nearly 25 years of experience working in the human service arena at both the treatment and management level.
Cat McGinnis, Program Coordinator
consensus@pdx.edu
Cat McGinnis is the central administrator for the Oregon Consensus Program and the hub for information on Oregon Consensus projects and processes. She brings more than 15 years of experience managing government projects and conducting public outreach. Cat received her BA in English and Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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