As of July 1, 2010, Ms. Brenda Cavanaugh has been hired as the new Executive Director of Community Mediation, Inc. Brenda has been the Associate Director since 2007 and has provided strong program and staff leadership during this period of time. She is originally from Massachusetts, having received a Masters Degree from Wheaton College with a major in history and a minor in education. She has been a High School Special Education teacher for several years, focusing on behavior and emotional disorders. During this time she was trained to set up a peer mediation program in the high school. Brenda was also trained as a mediator in 1997 at the Charlottesville, VA, Community Mediation Center. She worked with the C’ville Community Mediation Center and another nonprofit mediation group – James River Associates – until 2007 having mediated over 200 cases. Brenda set up peer mediation programs and created a conflict resolution workshop at Fluvanna Women’s Prison, facilitated town vision discussions throughout central VA, and was an adjunct Faculty Member at Southern CT State University teaching “Interpersonal Conflict” from 2007 - 2009. Brenda received training through the Graustein Community Leadership Program of greater New Haven and continues to be an active member of that training cohort.
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