Civic Dialog Group is led by Gail Bingham, a nationally recognized pioneer in promoting consensus-building in public decision making.  Gail is President Emeritus of RESOLVE, a non-profit organization founded in 1977. She has served as a professional mediator, facilitator, trainer and mentor for over 30 years and continues this work through RESOLVE. Her focus is multi-stakeholder dialogue on complex scientific and technical issues.

Gail is the 2006 winner of the Mary Parker Follett Award of the Association for Conflict Resolution, given “to an individual who has shown a passion and willingness to take risks, has used innovative and experimental techniques, and draws upon the talents and ideas of all persons…” She attended Stanford University, graduated from Huxley College of Environmental Studies in Washington State, and did her graduate work in environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

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