Gorge Works Professional Development Session 2 of 9
Hour 1: Six Rivers Presentation
Hour 2: Q&A Session/Career Background
Hour 3: Networking/Intern Group Discussions
Presenter Bios:
Marti Kantola Dane
Founder and Director
Marti has 18 years of strategic communications process design, negotiations, collaboration and dispute resolution experience. She brings creative problem solving orientation and results-oriented facilitation expertise. Words can create a thousand pictures, she ensures you are heard and the results you envision are the ones you will see. Marti holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech: Rhetoric and Communications. Ms. Kantola Dane was a professor of Communications and Co-Director of Forensics at the University of Alaska where she taught Communications, interpersonal and small group dynamics as well as argument and debate.
Andrea Pacheco
Washington Community Program Director and Restorative Discipline Specialist
Andrea is a frontline resolution strategist with grit for clarifying the inherent values at the center of every dispute, whether interpersonal, organizational, or public. Mediating with multi-partiality, she draws from diverse experience: as a licensed Professional Geologist in environmental and mineral exploration sectors, from a family legacy of military service in the US Air Force and Army, and with roots from Puerto Rican and Scotch-Irish heritage. As an intuitive collaborator and conflict coach with a drive for effective, transparent communication, she sees interest-based negotiation as adventurous opportunity and values balanced self-care for complete well-being. She currently calls Skamania County, WA home.
Nicolia Mehrling
Mediation Coordinator
Nicolia Mehrling has been mediating for two years and facilitating for five years. She trained with SEEDS CRC in California and AORTA (the Anti-Oppression Resources and Training Alliance). Nicolia brings a background in organizational development, agricultural science and practice, and local and state government to Six Rivers DRC. Outside of work, she studies yoga and human development, cooks complicated recipes, and explores Oregon.