Board Of Directors

The Board of Directors of the National Conflict Resolution Center is made up of business and community leaders, representatives from the NCRC mediator corps, and representatives from the San Diego County Bar Association.

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Officers and Executive Committee:

Thomas W. Turner, Jr. -- Chair
Managing Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP: Commercial Real Estate Attorney

Susanna Karney Flaster -- Vice Chair
Executive at Karney Management Company

Bobbie Gilbert -- Past Chair
Marriage & Family Therapist

Indra Gardiner -- Secretary
COO and Founder, Bailey Gardiner

Lewis Klein -- Treasurer

Dori Kaufman -- Member-at-Large
Co-owner, Bread and Cie Bakery and Cafe

Gregory A. Vega (Bar Representative) -- Member-at-Large
Attorney, Seltzer/Caplan/McMahon/Vitek

Members:

Jennifer Adams-Brooks
Senior Vice President, San Diego Housing Commission

Johanna Afshani (NCRC Mediator Representative)
Mediator/Trainer: National Conflict Resolution Center.

Blair Blum
Former: Senior Vice President, External Relations at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Harry Carter
Former: Partner with Higgs, Fletcher, & Mack LLP

Nancy M. Giberson
Assistant Superintendent, Learning Resources and Educational Technology Division, San Diego County Office of Education

Ben Haddad
Principal, California Strategies, LLC

Nora Taylor Jaffe
Former: Montessori and SAT teacher; Pregnancy Counselor and Lab Assistant, Planned Parenthood

Jay Jeffcoat
Partner, DLA Piper

Lucy L. Killea
Eighteen years as an elected official on the San Diego City Council, California State Assembly, and the California State Senate; American and Latin American historian

Carlisle C. Lewis III
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Sharp Healthcare

Jim Linthicum [NCRC Mediator Representative]
Director of Engineering and Construction, San Diego Association of Governments

Nancy Marlin
Provost, San Diego State University

Judy McDonald
Commissioner, City of San Diego, Commission for Arts and Culture

Kimberly R. Mettler
Director of Legal Affairs/ General Counsel, Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians

Marc L. Sands
Vice President & Division Counsel, Qualcomm Enterprise Services

Eric Sandy [NCRC Mediator Representative]
Sergeant, Community Services, City of Del Mar

Steven R. Smith
President, Dean & Professor, California Western School of Law

Michael Weaver
Partner, Latham & Watkins

Matt Weil
Managing Director at Christopher Weil & Company, Inc

Advisors to the board:

Malin Burnham

Judge J. Lawrence Irving

Murray Galinson

George Carter Jessop

Howard W. Brotman