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• VIRTUAL EVENT: Navigating Youth Mental Health in ADR Spaces

  • When
    Friday, May 22, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  ACR-GNY presents

  Navigating Youth Mental Health in ADR Spaces 

  Join us for a free, virtual facilitated conversation about how students and young professionals can protect their mental well-being while navigating the intrinsic challenges within ADR and legal spaces. This event is open to everyone!

  If you're a student or emerging professional, come with questions you'd like to discuss with your peers and other professionals.

  If you're a seasoned professional in the ADR field, this is an opportunity for you to share your insights on: 

  • How you manage your own mental health
  • Ways that you've practiced mental wellness early in your career
  • How you incorporate well-being practices into your work 

  ACR-GNY Board Member Nesha Dripchak will facilitate this conversation along with our Student Ambassadors Daria Rodriguez Horita, Samirah Aziz, and Amelia Pagan.

  Attendees are highly encouraged to participate. 

  DATE: Friday, May 22, 2026

  TIME: 12:00 - 1:30pm 

  LOCATION: Zoom

  PRICE: Free (registration required)

  Questions?

  Please contact Nesha Dripchak for more information. We hope to see you there!

  
  

  NESHA DRIPCHAK

  Having worked in many different environments and mediated at the EEOC, Nesha developed a passion for proactively identifying and addressing organizational conflict. As a Conflict Resolution Specialist in city government, she uses restorative practices to foster and maintain psychologically safe, collaborative, and effective work relationships. She is particularly drawn to promoting DEIB and empowering individuals through facilitated dialogue. Nesha is also on the board for The Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York (ACR-GNY), leading the organization's Student Ambassador program.
  
  

  ABOUT THE ACR-GNY 2026 STUDENT AMBASSADORS

  Daria Rodriguez Horita (she/her) is an ACR-GNY Student Ambassador, a Columbia Master's student, and Global Peace Summit representative. She is also involved with the Columbia University Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program. Daria is a staunch advocate of conflict resolution across international spaces.  

  Samirah Aziz (she/her) is an ACR-GNY Student Ambassador and third-year law student at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She has been highly interested in ADR and conflict resolution ever since taking a law school course Environmental Dispute Resolution and interning at Kern Rappy Dispute Resolution. She is fascinated by the intersections between law, policy, and ADR. Following law school, Samirah hopes to incorporate ADR within her personal and professional life. 

  Amelia Pagan (she/her) is an ACR- GNY Student Ambassador, Columbia University student, and United Nations intern. She contributes to research, policy analysis, and stakeholder engagement within. global governance and conflict-resolution frameworks, leveraging strong organizational and public-speaking skills to address complex political challenges. 

  Views expressed in connection with this event's publicity or at the event are those of the speakers and participants and not of ACR-GNY.

  
  

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• ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: The Organizational Ombuds – Guidance for the Ombuds Curious (and Mediators)

  • When
    Thursday, June 04, 2026
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ZOOM - ONLINE
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College present:

  The Organizational Ombuds – Guidance for the Ombuds Curious (and Mediators)

  An organizational ombuds serves as an independent, impartial, informal, and confidential resource for members of an organization to help them surface and resolve concerns, while providing anonymous upward feedback to leadership. Ombuds use a variety of skills, including confidential listening, interest exploration, brainstorming, and other skills familiar to mediators.

  Despite drawing on similar toolkits, how are the roles of the ombuds and the mediator both different and complementary? Join Chuck Doran, mediator and organizational ombuds, to discuss the ombuds function and what a mediator might want to know about exploring this unique role.

  Registrants are encourages to read the following articles in advance of the session:

  "Mediator as Ombuds" by Chuck Doran, MWI

  "How to Amplify the Effectiveness of HR and Compliance with an Organizational Ombuds" by Chuck Doran, Forbes

  "What an Ombuds Charter Is and Why It Matters" by Chuck Howard and Chuck Doren, Journal of the International Ombuds Association

  
  

  Chuck Doran

  Chuck Doran is an experienced mediator and organizational ombuds, specializing in resolving employment, franchise, and other commercial disputes. A mediator since 1992, he is a member of the CPR Dispute Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. Chuck has provided mediation and other ADR services to a variety of clients, including AT&T, Bose, BMW of North America, Coca-Cola, CVS Health, General Motors, Oxfam America, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), and the USPS REDRESS I and REDRESS II Mediation Panels. Chuck is a Certified Organizational Ombuds Practitioner (CO-OP) and a member of the International Ombuds Association who completed ombuds training with the IOA in 1995. Chuck has served as an outsourced organizational ombuds for companies, universities, and other organizations since 1997 and received a President's Award from the IOA in 2024. In 1993, Chuck completed a Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. In 1994, Chuck founded MWI, a nationally recognized dispute resolution service and training organization based in Boston, MA, that provides individual and corporate clients with mediation services, outsourced organizational ombuds services, negotiation consulting and training, and mediation training. Chuck has served as a teaching assistant on multiple occasions with Professor Roger Fisher at Harvard Law School's Program of Instruction for Lawyers Negotiation Workshop. In 1993, Chuck completed a Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the Program on Negotiation and, in 1997 and 1999, chaired two regional ADR Conferences. Chuck served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution and as Chair of the Qualifications Subcommittee. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Advisory Group and is a past president of the Association for Conflict Resolution, New England Chapter. Chuck is also a Distinguished Fellow with the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) and a past president of IAM's Board of Governors.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: The Roundtable Breakfasts are online meetings via Zoom. The link will change each month and will be distributed to all registrants the day before and the morning of the event. All listed times for ACR-GNY events are for Eastern Time. 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Join call to network with attendees 8:30 am – 10:00 am | Presentation and discussion About the Roundtable Breakfasts The Roundtable Breakfasts are organized by ACR-GNY and the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College. They take place the first Thursday of the month and are ongoing since 2001. Views expressed in connection with any Roundtable event publicity or at sessions are those of the speakers and participants and not of the CUNY DRC or ACR-GNY. This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsor:

  
  

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• ACR-GNY 25th Annual Conference - Ex/change: Established Practice & Emerging Ideas

  • Start
    Tuesday, June 09, 2026
  • End
    Friday, June 12, 2026
  • Location
    Hybrid - Primarily Online + In-person event in NYC

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  TICKET PRICING

  ACR-GNY Member: $75

  ACR-GNY Member - CDRC Volunteer/Staff:  $35

  ACR-GNY Member - Student: $25

  ACR National / Other ACR Chapter Member: $75

  Non-ACR-GNY Member: $190

  Non-ACR-GNY Member - CDRC Volunteer/Staff: $55

  Non-ACR-GNY Member - Student: $35

  * Conference Ticket + ACR-GNY Membership Bundle: $175 (save $15 on your conference ticket!)

  *Available only to nonmembers or lapsed members

  LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
  

  Now is the time to become an ACR-GNY member. Secure significant savings on your conference registration, and gain access to all the benefits of membership immediately!

  Benefits of membership:

  - Free or heavily discounted rates for events all year long

  - Access to conference video recordings library

  - Listing in ACR-GNY's public, searchable directory

  - And much more!

  (P.S. Almost all our programming is online, so if you're not based in New York, that's no problem!)

  BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

  (Or just select the membership bundle when you register for the conference, and we'll take care of the rest!)

  
  Questions? Please contact conference@acrgny.org.
  

  

  THIS CONFERENCE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY:

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  FULL-DAY SPONSOR (FRIDAY, JUNE 12)

  

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