Senior Bios: Kathleen Rutherford krutherford@kearnswest.com |
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Kathleen Rutherford, MPA, recently joined Kearns & West as Director and Senior Mediator.
Previously, she served as a Senior Mediator with The Keystone Center. Kathleen has a
broad range of experience in public involvement process design and facilitation,
collaborative problem-solving and consensus based decision-making, community
relations and education. She is a roster member of the United States Institute
for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
She has facilitated and mediated policy dialogues, inter-agency regulatory dialogues and strategic planning and consensus building efforts at the local, regional, state, national and international levels. Kathleen is knowledgeable in environmental, health and other policy issues. Kathleen has also developed, trained and implemented programs in alternative dispute resolution training for a variety of audiences. She draws from this experience to assist clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors to effectively recognize, raise and resolve conflicts. Kathleen serves as the lead facilitator on the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee. Kathleen also currently serves as the lead facilitator for two ongoing collaborative projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first is DELTA (Developing Enhanced Leadership Through Alliances) which works to eliminate intimate partner violence and the second is the Empower program which seeks to eliminate sexual violence. Recent past projects in which Kathleen served as lead facilitator include the Western Governors Association Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative, the Colorado Roadless Areas Review Task Force and the National Geothermal Collaborative. Kathleen holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration, with a concentration in Environmental Law and Policy Analysis from the University of Colorado (2001) and a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1991). She has over 300 hours training in environmental negotiation, group facilitation, conflict management, process design and policy analysis. She received her leadership training through Leadership Aspen 1998. Kathleen has been an Affiliate Faculty member at Regis University in Denver, teaching graduate courses in Public Policy Advocacy and Conflict Resolution. She has also taught conflict resolution and negotiation at the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver. Next | TOP of Page |
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