Susan L Podziba

Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator for more than 30 years, has designed and mediated scores of cases across the policy spectrum. Most of her projects include working with senior leadership of governments, stakeholders, civil society, and the general public. Her clients have included the United States Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, U...See more

Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator for more than 30 years, has designed and mediated scores of cases across the policy spectrum. Most of her projects include working with senior leadership of governments, stakeholders, civil society, and the general public. Her clients have included the United States Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, U.S. Institute for Peace, United Nations, World Bank, British Council, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Emilia Romagna Regional Authority of Italy, and Negotiation Strategies Institute of Jerusalem. She is listed on the United Nations Mediator Roster and is recipient of a National Partnership for Reinventing Government Award. Ms. Podziba is author of Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes and Our Cities: From Corruption to Participatory Democracy . She founded the Sacred Lands Project at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and is faculty for the senior executive seminar, Advanced Mediation Workshop: Mediating Complex Disputes, offered by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and an expert for the course, Religion and Conflict Transformation, which is organized by SwissPeace at the University of Basel. Ms. Podziba has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution and has taught graduate seminars on policy mediation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She has a Master of City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. See less