Board of Directors

Ellen has 15 years experience in mediation, negotiation and collective bargaining within the professional film and theater industries. She has an MBA from UNH with a concentration in organizational behavior and conflict management and has been a NH Certified Marital Mediator since 2000. Along with a private mediation practice since 1998, Ellen has done court-referred mediation in NH for 6 years, taught conflict/diversity management at Franklin Pierce College for 5 years and mediates 100 commercial cases per month for eBay. An ACR Advanced Practitioner, Ellen has extensive training in substance abuse and domestic violence issues.

Joan is a NH Certified Marital Mediator and a NH Certified Guardian ad Litem. She has worked in the legal field for over 20 years, initially working in the court system and then for 15 years as a paralegal in domestic litigation. Joan was a volunteer Strafford County Family Mediation Program for 10 years and has been working as a Guardian ad Litem since 1994 and as a Marital Mediator since 1999, when she founded Resolve Mediation Services.

Elizabeth Christensen, Treasurer

Elizabeth Christensen is the founder of Mosaic Mediation in Windham, NH. She is a NH Certified Marital Mediator, court appointed divorce and small claims mediator, volunteer family mediator and Justice of the Peace. She holds an MBA, a BS in Mathematics with additional education in Civil Engineering, Facilities Management and Paralegal Studies. As a generalist Mediator, she provides an array of mediation services to families, divorcing couples, businesses, organizations, landlords, tenants, consumers, engineers, contractors, etc., integrating twenty years of engineering and business management experience with extensive mediation training and casework.

Wendy Lasch-Williams has fifteen years experience in the areas of business management and finance for both the private and public sector. She holds an AS in Business Management from Champlain College and completed the Mediation and Conflict Management Program at Woodbury College. She recently attained her NH Marital Mediation Certification and mediates regularly in the Lakes Region. Wendy is the Program Youth Specialist for the School to Work Program at Franklin High School, teaching pre-employment and work maturity skills to high school students. She also serves as an active member of the Bristol Recreational Advisory Council and the Lakes Region Board of Child and Family Services.

Cindy Clark graduated cum laude from Plymouth State College and received her Juris Doctor Degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1980. She is currently a practicing attorney, mediator and partner at Clark & Sakella in Manchester, NH. Throughout her career Cindy has been a member of many organizations including the Grafton County Delegation, Lakes Region-Twin Rivers Coordination Council, NH Woman's Correctional Facility Study Committee, NH Women's Political Caucus, NH Probation Department, NH Task Force on Child Abuse, Youth Development Center and Women's Auxiliary. In her spare time, Cindy breeds thoroughbred horses in the State of Kentucky and has raced locally at Suffolk Downs and Rockingham Park.

Melinda has been serving as a neutral since 1994. She mediates, arbitrates, facilitates and provides neutral evaluation services. Melinda mediates in both court and private settings. She is a mediator for the New Hampshire Probate and Superior Courts. Melinda is also an experienced trainer, developing and leading programs in dispute resolution from basic mediation skills to advanced, specialized dispute resolution training and negotiation. She has also written and published several articles on dispute resolution topics. Melinda has been appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court Committee on Dispute Resolution. She has served as President and Treasurer of the Association for Conflict Resolution - New England Chapter. She is also Co-Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association ADR Section and is Vice-Chair of that Association's Dispute Resolution Committee. Melinda received a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and also earned a Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the University of Massachusetts.

Frank is president of Emerge Communications, a marketing consulting practice that specializes in strategy development, marketing communications, public relations, and employee relations. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Villanova University and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. He also attended the University of Vienna, Austria, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He is an adjunct instructor at SNHU and teaches both graduate and undergraduate marketing courses. He is a member of the Boston Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. In December, 2004, Frank became a trained family mediator and volunteers doing parent-child mediation with the Belknap County Family Mediation Program.

Gail was raised in Ipswich, MA. She received her bachelor's degree from Salem State College, taught briefly in Connecticut then relocated to New Hampshire. In New Hampshire, Gail earned her Juris Doctorate at Franklin Pierce Law Center, served two terms in the New Hampshire legislature, worked as a State Hearing Officer for the Department of Labor and the Public Employee Labor Relations Board then entered the non-profit sector as the executive director for Carroll County Mediation Services. In 2003, Gail received her state marital mediation certification and began a mediation practice with a concentration in education and family mediation. In 2004, she was again elected to the NH House of Representatives.

Sally is a certified Healthcare Consultant and the president of SAS Management Consultants, a firm offering national consulting services to healthcare clients since 1987. These services include Leadership Coaching and Development, Conflict Mediation and Resolution, Team Building and Succession Planning. In addition, Sally serves as a volunteer community mediator for the city of Nashua serving families in crisis.

Carol Stewart is program director for NH Mediation Program, a community mediation center in Concord, NH, providing family mediation, victim-offender dialogue, conflict resolution services for schools and basic mediation skills training. Carol is a NH Certified Marital Mediator. In her previous life, Carol worked for the NH Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. She holds a MS degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Boston University and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University.