My Journey

Qualifications and Accomplishments

Certified mediator: Core, Civil, Parent/Adolescent, Domestic

• 125 mediations with 93% reaching agreement (agricultural family business, business succession and division of assets, estate settlement, farmer/creditor, farmer/agency)

Group Facilitation

• Served as a facilitator for over 30 organizations in strategic planning, problem solving, conflict resolution, decision making, and team building

• Organized 37 farmer-to-farmer learning circles involving over 400 farm families

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Bethel College, Newton, Kansas, 1976. 

Master of Arts in Conflict Management Dispute Resolution, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, 2008.

Employment

Kansas Agricultural Mediation Services, 2006 - Present

Kansas Land Trust, Lawrence, Kansas, 2008–2023

Kansas Rural Center, Whiting, Kansas, 1987 – 2008