The RESOLVE Team

Dana Goodson (Facilitator)

Dana Goodson is a facilitator in RESOLVE’s Washington, DC office, where she assists in convening and facilitating consensus-building and policy dialogues. Ms. Goodson is responsible for project management, meeting facilitation, the production of meeting documentation, research and issue identification, agenda development, meeting logistics, and communication with participants. Her current projects include coordinating the work of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative and the Continental Dialogue on Non-Native Forest Insects and Diseases. Past projects have included supporting the Atlantic Trawl Gear Take Reduction Team of the National Marine Fisheries Service and acting as the coordinator for the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Diversity Mentoring Pilot Project.

Prior to joining RESOLVE, Ms. Goodson worked on international conflict resolution projects as a researcher at the Peace Research Institute-Frankfurt and as a conference coordinator and trainer at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development in Bologna, Italy. She currently mediates at Multi-Door, the family mediation division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

She received a Master’s degree in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she focused on Conflict Management, conducting field research and writing her thesis on the experience of the Colombian peace communities. She also holds a graduate degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France, and is fluent in French and proficient in both Spanish and Italian.