Edna A. Povich

ADR Experience and Qualifications

• Mediated highly charged community-wide disputes involving commercial developers, neighbors, planners, and historic preservationists
• Resolved disputes for managers and employees, public institutions and neighbors, divorcing couples, and community members
• Served as Project Director for a two-year facilitated project that resulted in the development of National Standards for Court-Connected Mediation Programs. The Standards received the Center for Public Resources' 1992 Award for Excellence and Innovation in Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Worked with a municipal corporation to design and implement a conflict management system
• Analyzed and restructured the dispute resolution systems for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
• Designed a dispute resolution program for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to test as a model for social service projects in cities across the country
• Director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pilot Mediation Program in several cities nationwide
• Developed and implemented a system-wide mediation program for the D.C. Public School System
• Lead a two-year project, funded by the World Bank, to design and implement mediation programs in the courts in the West Bank and Gaza
• Trained directors of social service agencies receiving grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as mediators and as mediation trainers
• Facilitated meetings for the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Labor Relations Authority
• Trained lawyers, judges, and other professionals as mediators for court-connected programs, American Health Lawyers Association and other programs

Representative Matters

• The Ford Motor Company
• Bell Atlantic
• Fannie Mae
• Honeywell International
• The Federal Reserve System
• The U.S. Office of Compliance
• The International Monetary Fund
• The U.S. Department of Energy