Happy birthday to us! On April 22, 2019, RSI celebrated its 24th year of operation!
Thank you to all our staff and supporters for everything you do to make RSI so great. We appreciate your continued support. We look forward to continuing to serve the court ADR community.
In February, RSI Board Member Alyson Carrel was the featured speaker at the Cook County, Illinois, Law Division Court-Annexed Mediation Seminar. Alyson’s presentation entitled “Bringing Technology into the Mediation Room” generated a lively discussion about online dispute resolution. Alyson’s talk touched on the current role technology plays in our daily lives, how legal practitioners are utilizing technology, and the opportunities for mediators to use technology to enhance their mediations.
This month marks our Director of Research Jennifer Shack’s 20th anniversary with RSI. During her 20 years here at RSI, Jen has played an integral role not just as a member of RSI, but in the court ADR community as a whole. Jen has worked to cultivate and provide reliable court ADR research and has conducted complex evaluations to help court programs across the country.
In honor of Jen, this month we are revisiting her Get to Know You interview in which she reflects on her time at RSI, her favorite projects, and the greatest challenge she faced when she started working in court ADR. Please join us in congratulating Jen on twenty wonderful years at RSI.
RSI is proud to introduce Alyson Carrel, Clinical Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Negotiation and Mediation and Assistant Dean of Law and Technology Initiatives onto our Board of Directors. Ms. Carrel is an active leader, presenter, and trainer in dispute resolution. She currently teaches Negotiation, Mediation Process and Advocacy, Dispute Resolution and a clinical course in Mediation Advocacy.
Since 1993, she has been exploring the process of mediation and how it can benefit under-represented populations and enhance access to justice. Prior to her appointment at Northwestern Law, Ms. Carrel was the Training Director at the Center for Conflict Resolution, one of the nation’s largest and longest-running community mediation centers, where she directed and lectured in the 40-hour mediation skills training and mediated court-referred cases.
RSI is proud to have Ms. Carrel join our Board and we hope you will join us in welcoming her to our organization!
