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2022 Annual Meeting and Elections
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Members,
We're thrilled to introduce a slate of candidates for your consideration for the ACR-GNY Board of Directors 2022. These individuals were screened by the Nominations Committee and put forward to the Board of Directors for approval. ACR-GNY members will have the opportunity to vote on this slate of Directors hip at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, January 25th.
We gratefully acknowledge all who came forward and submitted self-nominations for the Board and additionally thank the members of the Nomination Committee, Chris Daly, Genesis Fisher, Glen Parker, and Rebecca Liebowitz, for their work on this process.
Candidates for Director 1st term:
Stephanie Gilman
Melody Wang
Tony Yost
Candidates for Director for re-election to next term:
Rebecca Liebowitz
Susan Salazar
Candidates for Officer:
President-Elect: Emily Skinner
Treasurer: Craig Coldstream
Secretary: Nick Pozek
Click here to RSVP for the January 25th event
CANDIDATE STATEMENTS
Stephanie Gilman:
I advocate for, support, and collaborate with court involved and system impacted young people in my work at the City University of New York, where I founded CUNY Freedom Prep, a college transition program for justice system impacted young people. I facilitated multiple mediations with students in the NYC public school system in my previous work at CUNY’s Early College Initiative and at buildOn, a national nonprofit organization that provides local and global community service opportunities to youth in urban settings. Over the course of my career, I have also trained public school students to mediate and helped school leadership set up peer mediation programs to implement more restorative and less punitive solutions to conflict and violence. I am trained in Collaborative Problem Solving and Restorative Practices, both of which inform my work as a mediator.
I am a seasoned facilitator and educator and enjoy presenting about the importance of mediation and how it informs my approach to higher education with system impacted and marginalized students. Recently I presented to the 14th Annual CUNY Black Male Initiative Conference and at the 2019 National Conference on Higher Education in Prison. My work in this field resulted in my selection as a CUNY Transformative Learning in the Humanities Fellow. I have recently launched a private mediation practice and am a new ACR-GNY member.
I am passionate about peaceful conflict resolution, alternative dispute resolution, and the role mediators can play in creating a safe, productive space for people to work out conflicts. I would be honored to serve the field with Board Membership and am specifically interested in joining the board in the role of Membership Support. I am excited by the opportunity to help build stronger connections to ACR-GNY members, and to seek new ways to connect with new members, especially young people, students, people of color, and other LGBTQ+ people.
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Melody Wang:
I first fell in love with the work in mediation when I was a graduate law student at the University of Southern California, the opportunity to work as a volunteer mediator for APADRC (Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center) and Small Claim Courts in Los Angeles opened my eyes up to the possibility of a life-long career. Clients walked away from my mediation room feeling satisfied and resolved, and I in return, felt more confident that this was what I was born to do.
As a fellow mediator with four years in the field and a brand-new New-Yorker, I now serve as a panel family mediator for the NYC Family Court. Since moving to New York City in late August this year, I have attended several virtual events organized by the ACR-GNY; including the Mediation Settlement Day and the Roundtable Breakfast events. I was extremely impressed with the Mediation Settlement Day event because I saw the speakers' and the members’ passion and dedication in the work they do, and it makes me hopeful for the future of mediation and where it will grow. Moreover, I found that ACR-GNY is an endless thinktank where the brilliant and the experienced assemble; the open-minded platform for ideas and experience-sharing is what I found the most attractive about this organization.
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Anthony Yost:
I wish to further my support of the local ADR community by volunteering for a board position. I am a very organized individual, have experience putting on events, and lots of contacts to use for events. I would be honored to assist in any way I can. I am an experienced Practitioner/Researcher/Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the alternative dispute resolution industry. I am skilled in Negotiation, Mediation, Facilitation, Research, Coaching, Conflict Resolution, Public Speaking, and Nonprofit Management. I hold a Master of Arts (M.A.) focused in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution from Salisbury University.
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WHO CAN VOTE?
We look forward to your participation in this election process.
If you have any questions, please contact us at admin@acrgny.org