NVMS is a nonprofit organization governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the community. NVMS strives to have a board which represents the community we serve in a variety of demographic and geographic ways.
Currently serving on our Board are the following:
- Marge Bleiweis, President, was the Conflict Resolution Specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools. She retired in 2008. In addition to working with student mediation programs, she provided mediation training (court certified) for staff and also mediated employee disputes. She also organized the Northern Virginia Student Mediation Conference. Prior to this she was an Elementary School Counselor for seventeen years. It was as a school counselor that she helped develop the first peer mediation programs in Fairfax County Public Schools.
Since 1990 she has been mediating with the Northern Virginia Mediation Service where she is currently a mentor mediator. In Virginia, she is a court-certified mediator in General District Court, Circuit Court-Family and J & DR District Court. She has mediated approximately 100 family cases. She mediates general district and small claims court cases as well as workplace disputes. Marge also is a restorative justice facilitator and trainer, working with the NVMS Restorative Justice task force.
Marge has a Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Maryland as well as an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in Education.
- Scott Adams, Vice President, is an Ombudsman with the Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). Scott has over 17 years of diverse domestic and international experience in providing dispute resolution, management consulting, and training services. His clients and industry experience include the non-profit sector, government, higher education, utilities, health care, biotechnology, and international development.
Scott has been trained as a mediator by Le Centre de Mediation et de Formation a la Mediation in Paris, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva, and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, where he currently serves as a court-appointed mediator. He is a former Adjunct Faculty member at George Washington University Law School where he taught courses on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He remains an occasional guest lecturer at the Law School and the Department of Organizational Sciences.
Scott received his B.A. in Political Science and Russian from Emory University and an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands.
- Frank Monez, Treasurer, is a certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Virginia, following a successful corporate career in the technology sector. Frank spent over 20 years at IBM, most notably in business development, creating and maintaining relationships with other hardware and software companies for joint development, marketing, and sales. Frank’s responsibilities included the negotiation and maintenance of contracts, resolution of issues and disputes arising from endeavors with business partner companies, and expanding areas of cooperative activity. As a manager, he administered personnel policies, managed staff development and promotion opportunities, and resolved employee conflicts and concerns.
Frank is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
- Michelle Chapman-Campbell is a Regional Coordinator with the Fairfax County Department of Community and Recreation Services. She has worked in the Human Service Sector for 15+ years. As a Regional Coordinator she is involved in facilitating the identification and collaborative resolution of community issues between local government agencies, community businesses, faith based organizations, and community groups/residents. She is a mediator with the Fairfax County Alternative Dispute Resolution work place mediation program. She volunteers as a Facilitator with the NVMS Restorative Justice Project. She is a Commonwealth of Virginia certified mediator and for three years running she has participated as an Adult Facilitator (mentor) at the Northern Virginia Youth Mediation Conference.
- Bruce Engelbert, is retired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after 30 years of environmental management and program implementation service. His last position with EPA involved supporting community involvement and conflict prevention. This included coordinating the dispute resolution and mediation services related to hazardous waste cleanup program activities. He has experience facilitating large public meetings and smaller organizational problem solving sessions. He represented EPA in consultations with the government of Thailand on increasing its public participation efforts during environmental decision-making. He led the EPA task force which established a workplace dispute mediation program.
Bruce has a master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He is a Commonwealth of Virginia certified mentor mediator who has mediated over 150 small claims, community and employment disputes.
- Jon Kaufmann is a partner in the law firm of Kaufmann & Brick, has been a practicing mediator and arbitrator since 1977 and is a contract Administrative Judge for EEOC. He has mediated over 1,200 disputes in the employment, labor, and divorce fields. He is an experienced mediation trainer with the Northern Virginia Mediation Service. Jon also provides conflict resolution, facilitation and coaching services to both Federal and private sector organizations experiencing difficulties with their workforce.
He has a B.S. from Cornell University and a law degree from the American University Washington College of Law. He is a member of the Virginia bar and a certified mediator.
- Joan Packer works for the Fairfax County Public School System. She is the Conflict Resolution Specialist for the school system. She implements and provides trainings, workshops, presentations, conferences and consultations in Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation and Restorative Practices in a prevention as well as intervention capacity. She is currently helping to implement the NVMS Restorative Justice grant into the school system. She began as a Health and Physical Education teacher in a middle school and then became a School Counselor with the system. She started the Peer Helping and the Peer Mediation program in her school fifteen years ago. She has facilitated many years with the Northern Virginia Peer Mediation Conferences. In the past she has helped with student presentations at the Peer Mediation Co-coordinator Trainings and has coached for the Basic Peer Mediation trainings. She and her Peer Mediation students, also, participated in several pyramid trainings for the McLean Langley coalition.
She also was a department chair, facilitator of a Character Education grant for her school, the Lead Counselor, a coach for the Positive Behavior Program and has taught Parent Education classes. She recently earned her Commonwealth of Virginia Mediation Certification.
- Ann Rosser is the CEO of Finding Resolution, LLC, is a business coach, success facilitator and certified mediator by the Supreme Court of Virginia.She works with successful individuals and organizations to help them get to the next level through measurable return on financial and personal investment to improve efficiency, productivity and goal fulfillment. Her processes involve strategic thinking and planning, development in leadership, sales, management and customer loyalty and helping to lay the foundation for future success.She works with individuals one-on-one, small classes or within organizations.
Ms. Rosser is a highly experienced professional with 10 years of experience with a Fortune 500 company and over 20 years as a senior executive with a medical non-profit association. Ms. Rosser is also a dynamic and accomplished leader with experience in mentoring and training, developing mediation strategies, team leadership and resolution of workplace disputes.
Ms. Rosser is a member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, the Williamsport, PA Chamber of Commerce, the American Society of Association Executives, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Virginia Mediation Network. She is a member of the Northern Virginia Mediation Service Board of Directors.
- Mara Schoeny is an experienced facilitator and trainer with national and international work experience. For more than two decades, she has worked in a wide variety of contexts and with many audiences on issues pertaining to race and gender, as well as collaboration and inclusion. She is a former youth camp director with experience in traditional camp settings as well as dialogue and co-existence camps for youth from conflict areas. Her specialties include dialogue, participatory community processes, intercultural communication and team development, program design and assessments.
Dr. Schoeny is currently an assistant professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and the Director of the Institute’s Graduate Certificate Program. She was a 1998 USIA Visiting Fellow with the Curriculum Development Exchange Program, in residence at Yerevan State University, Armenia. In 2008 she was awarded the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award. Her current research focuses on the differing functions of trainers in conflict settings and the role training plays in empowerment and capacity building for groups.
- John Wagner is a professional mediator and organizational improvement consultant with over thirty-eight years of experience. His career began in 1968, in Labor Relations and Human Resources, before joining the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, (FMCS) in 1973. He served in a number of administrative and managerial positions with the FMCS while continuing to mediate private, public and federal sector collective bargaining disputes, equal employment opportunity complaints, as well as facilitating Regulatory Negotiations.
He has trained and lectured to a wide variety of audiences, both domestic and international, including the University of Moscow, and instructed for George Mason University at the Organization of American States. His international work has been devoted to consultation, facilitation, training and dispute systems design in Europe, Canada, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
He received his B.S. from, St. Peter’s College and an M.S. in Conflict Management from George Mason University. He has been on the faculty of the Lutheran Colleges Consortium in Arlington, Virginia since 2000.