Dee Knapp is president and owner of Accord & Collaboration Dispute Resolution Services providing conflict management, mediation, dialogue facilitation, conflict coaching, team facilitation, and training.  She is a  Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University School of Law where she has directed the Mediation Clinic, and taught Mediation Skills.  Dee is also a part-time ADR Advisor for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) where she advises, coaches, facilitates and mediates between employees responding to disasters around the United States and its territories.  Before becoming a lawyer and conflict management specialist, she worked as a counselor for abused and neglected teenagers in residential settings. 

Dee is past co-chair of the Sustainable Development Action Group, part of MBBI’s United Nations Multilateral Working Group and is an active member of the Women in Mediation Group. 

Areas of Expertise: Workplace, Community and Special Education Mediation, Public Policy Facilitation, Organizational Development, Conflict Coaching, Restorative Practices, Equal Employment Opportunity Discrimination, Government, Indigenous Communities,  Higher Education,  Training,  Dialogue Facilitation, Interest-Based Negotiation, Environmental and Employment Law
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Residence: USA
Languages: English, some conversational German and some conversational Spanish