ADRready Consulting Services
Beltsville, Maryland
Mae
has been involved in mediation and facilitation for the past ten years,
gaining exposure to the field in 1993. She has been a lead mediator
for the federal governments Shared Neutral (SN) program and local government
agencies of Prince Georges County; the Human Relations Commission and
Office of Community Relations since 1998 and 1997, respectively. She has completed over 400 hours of training
in alternative dispute resolution (mediation/facilitation/negotiation),
the EEO complaints process, train-the-trainer and other collaborative
processes through the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Center for Alternative
Dispute Resolution, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Prince George’s
County Community Mediation and Conflict Resolution Collaborative (CMCRC),
Blacks In Government (BIG), Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Office (MACRO).
Mae
has served in elected and appointed officer roles since 1997; for PGCMB
as vice chair (1999-2000), legislative chair (1997-2002), public relations
co-chair (2005); for MACRO‘s Mediator Excellence Council (MEC) as co-chair
of the Consumer Group (2003-present), for MCDR as an at-large member (2000),
assistant secretary (2001), and marketing chair (2002-present) where she
oversees development of the website. She has mediated numerous cases involving
business, employment, family, multi-party, neighbor-to-neighbor, child
visitation. In 1998, 2000, and
2002 she served as the facilitator for Study Circle four week sessions
in several Prince George’s County communities and at a county forum committed
to the betterment of community peace, diversity and understanding. In
2005, she facilitated a nine week conflict resolution session involving
parents and their children age 8-18. She
recently retired from the United States Department of State, where she
was an agency EEO award recipient for her work in , advocacy, leadership,
and mediation.
Mae
is a certified mediator through MCDR and is a member of the national Association
for Conflict Resolution (ACR), National Association for Family and Community
(NAFCAM), and several national advocacy and professional organizations.
She is in the process of establishing ADRready Consulting Services with
a website presence.