As a mediator and facilitator, Lucy is committed to helping government, private and public interests, communities, and citizens work together toward better solutions. Since 1981, she has specialized in natural resource and environmental issues, serving as mediator, facilitator, consultant or trainer. Her cases usually involve several parties, and a variety of complex issues that require participants to master difficult technical material.  In some cases, she mediates site-specific disputes, or mediates the development of policy or regulations. In other cases, she designs and facilitates public involvement processes for government agencies from the local to the tribal and federal level. She also provides custom training on mediation, facilitation, cross-cultural communication, and negotiation skills. Issues she has worked with include health, education, endangered species, mine reclamation, surface and groundwater quality, water rights, air emissions, toxic waste facilities siting, dam operations, forest management, and more.

 

    

With a strong background in Native American and southwest Hispanic issues, she brings a cross-cultural sensitivity to all her work. After living eight years on the Navajo Indian Reservation, she served as Liaison for Indian Affairs under the Governor of New Mexico, and more recently she has worked with Hispanic communities in the southwest. Living in Santa Fe, Lucy regularly mentors those who might otherwise not have access to the Alternative Dispute Resolution field, believing that the future health of the profession depends on its diversity and accessibility.