Juliana Birkhoff
Juliana Birkhoff
Email Address jbirkhoff@ccp.csus.edu
Website http://www.csus.edu/ccp/
Position or Title Senior Facilitator Mediator
Professional Biography Juliana Birkhoff is an experienced mediator, facilitator, dispute resolution trainer, and scholar. She combines her theoretical understanding, research experience, and group learning and collaboration skills to flexibly respond to complex group planning, problem solving and decision making challenges. In her 17 years of experience as a mediator and facilitator, she has worked with federal, state, and local level government as well as consumer, community, grassroots, and public interest groups. She has designed and conducted a variety of consensus-based multi-stakeholder dialogues, collaborative workshops, and decision focused processes designed to improve communications, develop group learning, conduct strategic planning, provide input into state or federal plans or policies, develop recommendations, or create consensus plans and policies.Dr. Birkhoff is an experienced trainer and teacher. She has designed and conducted a wide variety of negotiation, collaboration, and conflict resolution trainings for non-profit, governmental agencies and advocacy groups. At RESOLVE, she designed an innovative mentoring and coaching training program for managers and collaborative leaders. Her training focuses on helping technical and scientific experts to work productively in collaborative processes and to expand the capacities of stakeholders, agency conflict resolution specialists, and collaborative leaders to handle team leadership, collaboration, and conflict resolution.
Address Line 1 815 S Street,
City Sacramento
State California
Zip 95811
Phone 916 341 3331
Small Business No
GSA Schedule Provider No
Federal Employee No
Native Dispute Resolution Network No
Total Cases Last 10 Years 30
ECR Services Provided
Service | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Strategic Planning for Collaboration or Conflict Resolution Effort | Montgomery County Stormwater Strategies and Practices | 2009 |
Joint Fact Finding/Neutral Evaluation | New Brunswick Forest Collaborative | 2008 |
Public Engagement/Public Input | Fairfax County Watershed Management Planning | 2007 |
Policy Dialogues | Endocrine Disruptors Methods Validation FACA | 2006 |
Process Design | Fairfax County Stormwater Mediation | 2004 |
Mediation/Assisted Negotiation | Bankhead National Forest Mediation | 2003 |
Conflict/Situation Assessment | Bankhead National Forest Mediation | 2003 |
Facilitation of Collaboration or Conflict Resolution Effort | Michigan Water Policy Planning | 2002 |
Case Experience by Subject Matter
Service | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Climate Change | Climate Health and Emergency Preparedness | 2013 |
Public Health | National Environmental Partnership Council | 2011 |
Agricultural issues | Upper Chester River Showcase Watershed | 2010 |
Mining | Newmont Mining Conflict Resolution Capacity Building | 2009 |
Recycling and/or Conservation | UNEP Financing Options for Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes | 2009 |
Environmental Health | National Conversation on Chemical Exposure Public Health | 2009 |
Endangered Species and/or Critical Habitat | New Brunswick Forest Collaborative | 2008 |
Archeological and/or Historic Preservation | Historic Preservation Advisory Panel | 2008 |
Watershed Management and/or Planning | Fairfax County Watershed Management Planning | 2007 |
Pesticides and/or Toxic Substances | Children's Health Protection Federal Advisory Com. | 2004 |
Forest and Timber Issues | Bankhead National Forest Mediation | 2003 |
Air Quality and/or Air Pollution | Cleveland Air Toxics Pilot Program Evaluation | 2001 |
Type of Public Decision
Application | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Siting and Construction | Newmont Mining Conflict Resolution Capacity Building | 2009 |
License and permit issuance | Montgomery County Stormwater Strategies and Practices | 2009 |
Compliance and enforcement action | U.S. EPA Deterrence and Compliance Assistance Workshop | 2008 |
Planning | Winnipeg Manitoba Regional Collaboration | 2007 |
Rulemaking | Endocrine Disruptors Methods Validation FACA | 2006 |
Policy development | Children's Health Protection Federal Advisory Com. | 2004 |
Implementation/monitoring agreements | Bankhead National Forest Mediation | 2003 |
Case Size
Size | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Cases involving more than 3 but less than 15 participants | Environmental Health Coalition | 2008 |
Cases involving more than 60 participants | White House Conference On Cooperative Conservation | 2005 |
Cases involving 15 to 60 participants | Louisiana Comprehensive Coastal Ecosystem Restoration | 2003 |
Case Jurisdiction/Scale
Jurisdiction | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Large landscape scale | Chesapeake Bay Treasured Landscape Initiative | 2010 |
International | Newmont Mining Conflict Resolution Capacity Building | 2009 |
Intergovernmental | UNEP Financing Options for Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes | 2009 |
Interagency | Historic Preservation Advisory Panel | 2008 |
Multi-jurisdictional | Winnipeg Manitoba Regional Collaboration | 2007 |
National or regionally significant cases | Endocrine Disruptors Methods Validation FACA | 2006 |
Local/community | Fairfax County Stormwater Mediation | 2004 |
State | Louisiana Comprehensive Coastal Ecosystem Restoration | 2003 |
Process Support Services
Meeting Support
Support Service | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Logistical and administrative support (organizing logistics for meetings, notetaking, etc.) | Healthy Schools Network | 2011 |
Engagement of technical experts/third party science advisors | Endocrine Disruptors Methods Validation FACA | 2006 |
Experience in a team of multiple ECR Professionals | White House Conference On Cooperative Conservation | 2005 |
Collaborative Technologies
Collaborative Technology | Case | Year |
---|---|---|
Project Websites (static, interactive, portals, etc.) | National Conversation on Chemical Exposure Public Health | 2009 |
Visualization Tools (e.g., electronic maps, flyover video simulations, geographic information systems, digital storytelling) | New Brunswick Forest Collaborative | 2008 |
Engagement/Communication Tools (e.g., polling tools, social media, collaborative document production, video conferencing, webinars, ideation tools) | New Brunswick Forest Collaborative | 2008 |
Implementation Tools (e.g., content management tools, project management tools) | Children's Health Protection Federal Advisory Com. | 2004 |
Evaluation and Monitoring Tools (e.g., electronic survey tools, dashboards) | Cleveland Air Toxics Pilot Program Evaluation | 2001 |
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