Bio
Stacie Nicole Smith is Associate Managing Director and Senior Mediator at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), where she has over eighteen years of experience as a mediator, facilitator, coach, trainer, and researcher on a broad range of public issues in the U.S. and internationally. Her work includes assessment, facilitation and mediation of multi-sector community and national stakeholder dialogues, disputes, and collaborations; training and curriculum design for international, national, and local government entities, NGOs, and schools; and research and writing on collaboration on public policy issues. She specializes in facilitating highly complex and contentious multi-party disputes around substantively challenging technical issues, where identities, values and interests intertwine. She brings particular substantive expertise in environment issues (land use, water, energy), historic and cultural resources, health, and education.
Ms. Smith is member of the Environment and Public Policy Section and the Education Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and is listed on the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s National Roster of Environmental Dispute Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals, as well as the roster of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Interior and the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution. She has served as Adjust Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston, and guest lectures in courses at Tufts University and Harvard Law School. Stacie holds a B.A. from Brown University and a M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College.
