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Elaine Hallmark, Director
elaineh@pdx.edu
Elaine Hallmark has been Director of Oregon Consensus (OC) in the National Policy Consensus Center (NPCC) at Portland State University since the program began in 2003. Ms. Hallmark also serves as Director of Mentoring and Training for NPCC, and is a founding member and Board President of Beyond War, an international non-profit educational organization that explores, 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, and is a former Chair of the Oregon Mediation Association Ethics Committee. Ms. Hallmark served four years on the former Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission, including three years as founding Chair.
As a private practitioner first with Confluence Northwest and later with Hallmark Pacific Group, LLC, she mediated numerous multi-party disputes involving environmental, 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 1980's.
Ms Hallmark 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 Lewis and Clark Law School’s Outstanding Environmental Alumni Award.
Ms. Hallmark 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 this capacity, he had primary responsibility for programs in the Departments of Transportation, Economic Development, Land Conservation, and Development and Housing. In the Governor's Office, he also served as the Governor's Sustainability and Dispute Resolution Advisor. Prior to this, Mr. Wolf served as the Assistant Director of the Department of Land Conservation and Development. Mr. Wolf brings 23 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, a 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. 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. Connie 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).
Gail McEwen, Land Use Program Manager
mceweng@pdx.edu
Gail McEwen has over 26 years 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.
Elizabeth Normand, Land Use Program Manager
enormand@spiretech.com
Elizabeth Normand manages the Clackamas County Land Use Pilot Project for the Oregon Consensus Program. The goal of this project is to demonstrate the potential for using mediation and other collaborative approaches to prevent or resolve conflict in quasi-judicial land use cases.
Elizabeth has more than 20 years experience with Oregon’s land use system and in dispute resolution. She was a land use hearings officer for the City of Portland and other jurisdictions for 15 years. She also served as Deputy Legislative Counsel for the Oregon State Legislature, providing legal counsel and drafting land use legislation.
She has used her training and experience in dispute resolution to improve government operations, and trained government staff and citizens in land use law and the land use process. She has experience as a mediator, arbitrator and facilitator; and trained others in those dispute resolution processes.
Elizabeth designed an arbitration system for divorce and custody disputes through a pilot project for the Clackamas County Family Courts. She was a mediator and trainer for Portland’s Neighborhood Mediation Center, and managed a grant program to provide facilitation, training and dispute resolution services to Portland’s Neighborhood Associations.
Elizabeth has practiced law in the private and public sector. She has a J.D. from Willamette College of Law and a B.A. from Washington State University.
Turner Odell , Natural Resources Program Manager
todell@pdx.edu
Turner Odell is the Natural Resources Program Manager for the Oregon Consensus Program. In that capacity, he works to foster the use of collaborative practices and approaches for addressing public policy issues related to natural resources and the environment. Mr. Odell is an attorney and mediator with more than 15 years experience in environmental and natural resource law and regulation. His prior experience includes litigation, administrative practice, agency negotiations, as well as mediation of complex, multiparty environmental issues.
Prior to joining OCP, Mr. Odell was a Senior Mediator in the Portland, Oregon office of RESOLVE, a non-profit organization providing neutral consensus-building services for environmental, energy, and health-related public policy issues. At RESOLVE, Mr. Odell’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, Mr. Odell was a senior attorney with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. At ELI, he conducted legal and policy research and analysis and convened or facilitated stakeholder groups, policy dialogues, public participation and other inter-agency processes. Mr. Odell was previously the Pennsylvania office counsel for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a regional environmental organization working to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Mr. Odell earlier 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.
Mr. Odell received his B.S. from Cornell University in resource economics and his J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law – Newark.
Laurel Singer, Human Services Program Manager
lausinger@aol.com
Laurel Singer, MS, LPC serves as Program Manager specifically working to foster the use of collaborative practices and approaches for addressing public policy issues in Human Services including the fields of education, health care and other social services. Laurel is a long time mediator and facilitator with expertise in designing and implementing the most effective process possible to assist an organization, groups, or collection of stakeholder in making decisions and resolving conflicts constructively and collaboratively. She brings over 20 years of experience working in 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 OCP 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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