The RESOLVE Team

Jennifer L. Peyser (Senior Mediator)

As a Senior Mediator in RESOLVE’s Washington, DC office Jennifer Peyser assists clients and stakeholders with convening, facilitation, and mediation of multi-party policy dialogues and consensus processes. She specializes in processes dealing with the highly technical scientific and regulatory questions involved in environmental policy making. As a facilitator and trainer, Ms. Peyser has worked locally, nationally, and internationally with stakeholders including environmental and industry representatives, scientists, elected officials, and agency staff. Her project experience includes natural resources cases, such as fisheries and alternative energy, and public health cases such as drinking water, endocrine disruptors, and biotechnology.

Ms. Peyser first joined the RESOLVE team in 2001, returning in 2005 after earning her master’s degree in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Environmental Policy Group, where she completed her thesis on public involvement in natural resource management decision-making. An Affiliate and past Project Manager of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, and a former Graduate Associate at the Consensus Building Institute, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Arts in French from Iowa State University and is a Morris K. Udall Scholar for Excellence in Environmental Policy. In addition to her work as a facilitator, Ms. Peyser assists with business development activities for RESOLVE.