Staff

Peter S. Adler, Ph.D. is the Government Liaison and Special Projects Coordinator of the Hawaii Agricultural Mediation Program. Formerly he was President of The Keystone Center, which applies consensus-building and scientific information to energy, environmental, and health related policy problems. Peter’s specialty is multi-party negotiation and problem solving. He has worked extensively on water management, resource planning, agricultural issues, land planning issues, and marine and coastal affairs. Peter has held executive positions with the Hawaii Justice Foundation, the Hawaii Supreme Court’s Center for Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and the Neighborhood Justice Center. He has served as President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution and has written extensively in the field of mediation, conflict resolution, and leadership.

Mary Madison Campbell is an attorney and mediator in the high desert region of Southern California. With over a decade of experience in conflict resolution, Mary’s focus is supporting families in transition, estate planning and agricultural/environmental dispute resolution. In addition to her mediation and law practice, Mary teaches mediation, facilitation and community engagement classes for the University of California Extension’s Conflict Resolution Certificate Program. Mary has also worked with organizations and community groups on larger-scale issues such as addressing regional environmental impacts, climate change and commercial fishing, and with community-based mediation centers in Maryland and California. Mary earned her Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University and her Juris Doctor from the Martin Luther King School of Law at the University of California at Davis, where she also completed a certificate in Public Interest Law.

Jacob Haigh is a research analyst at the Environmental Mediation Center. He has a BA in Political Science from Hunter College, with a specialization in economics, finance, and energy issues. During his undergraduate program, he researched political and economic pressures resulting from natural gas denial in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He also participated in the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs held annually at West Point. As a young professional, he is excited to bring an interest in energy and environmental issues to the forefront with the EMC.

Julie Hoyt was the Associate Director of the Environmental Mediation Center. Julie has worked with EMC since 2007 and previously assisted in the administration of both the Vermont and New Hampshire Agricultural Mediation Programs. Julie is an attorney admitted to practice in both Vermont and Massachusetts. Julie’s mediation experience includes a variety of producer-creditor disputes, adverse decision letters arising from FSA loans, NRCS programs, Rural Development loans and many others. Julie has experience working in the agricultural community working on issues affecting dairy and goat farms and fruit and vegetable growers.

Teya is the Program Coordinator for Hawaii. She is a mediator, facilitator, arbitrator, and attorney, with an MBA focused on the economics of natural resources. In Hawaii, she has facilitated positive discussions on complex public-policy issues, including long-term water use planning, and endangered species/wind energy mitigation. Teya managed a county-wide invasive species program for 14 years, where she engaged directly with the agricultural community. She also writes and reports on local, regional, and international climate, biodiversity, agricultural, and fishery issues.

Matt is the director of the Environmental Mediation Center and the administrator of the EMC’s agricultural mediation programs. He is an attorney and mediator with over thirty years of experience in environmental law and mediation. He was the founding director of Green Mountain Environmental Resolutions, a dispute resolution firm focused on developing collaborative solutions to environmental and land use disputes. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Agricultural Mediation Programs and is listed on the roster of the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.