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About Marty Price, J.D.
Mediator, Consultant and Trainer....
Marty
Price is the founder and
director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program Information and Resource Center in Asheville, North
Carolina, www.vorp.com. He is a founding
member of Restorative Justice Resource Center,
www.restorativejustice.info
and is currently the Project Director for International Education and
Outreach.
He is the founder and former director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation
Program (VORP) of Clackamas County (near Portland) Oregon and previously
served on the Board of the VORP of Multnomah County (in Portland). He is a
former board member and Co-Chair of the Victim-Offender Mediation
Association (VOMA), a non-profit, international, educational and advocacy
organization that promotes Restorative Justice and supports victim-offender
mediation and reconciliation programs. Mr. Price holds Juris Doctor (Doctor
of Law) and Bachelor of Social Work degrees from Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan.
Marty Price provides consultation and training to victim-offender mediation programs throughout the United States and around the world. In 2006, he toured Argentina and Chile as a restorative justice speaker, at the request of their governments. The tour was sponsored and funded by the U.S. Department of State Democracy and Human Rights International Information Program. In April, 2007 he will return to Argentina as a Fulbright scholar, teaching restorative justice in the PhD program at JFK Argentine University in Buenos Aires. (See Press Release.) Mr. Price has served as a consultant and trainer to victim-offender mediation programs in most of the United States, the Territory of Guam, in Mexico and in Central and South America; also as a consultant to restorative justice initiatives in Eastern Europe. Price's articles have been published in numerous professional journals. His ground-breaking mediation work with drunk-driving fatality cases has been recognized internationally.
Mr. Price has presented his work on the mediation of seriously violent offenses at conferences on the treatment and prevention of crime, both nationally and internationally. Other speaking and training venues have included a Community Conference and training, Yuma, Arizona (2006), the Renaissance Lawyer Society “The Role of Peacemakers in Healing Polarization” Summer Peacemaking Camp for Lawyers (2005), U. S. Dept. of Justice Restorative Justice Symposium (1997), National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR, 1993-1999), the Annual Conference of the Victim Offender Mediation Association (1993-1998), the Restorative Justice Roundtable of the American Probation and Parole Association (1996), the conference of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR, 1996-98) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD, 1997). He served on the faculty of the National Restorative Justice Training Institute Advanced Training for the Mediation of Seriously Violent Crimes at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work (1996). He also teaches Restorative Justice at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.
Mr. Price is an attorney and social worker who has worked as a mediator for over 20 years. Previously practicing in Michigan, he transformed his domestic relations litigation practice into a "non-adversarial family law practice," offering peaceful and collaborative resolutions in divorces, child custody and visitation, child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, adoption and guardianship cases. He was a co-founder of the Michigan Mediation Association, which allied lawyer-mediators and mental health therapist-mediators to do "interdisciplinary team mediation" in family law disputes.
Mr. Price has been an administrator and an Adjunct Faculty member at Wayne County Community College, in Detroit. While residing in Michigan, he served on the board of directors of The Haven, a shelter for victims of domestic violence and he provided pro bono legal representation for clients of The Haven.
Marty Price frequently consults with the media. Since appearing in an ABC 20/20 episode about restorative justice, he has had the opportunity to consult on numerous documentaries and television shows about restorative justice including the A&E series “Confronting Justice”, the Oprah episode about restorative justice, and many others.
Mr. Price recognizes that his mission in life is to bring restorative justice reform to our criminal justice system, empowering victims, offenders and communities to heal the effects of crime and curb recidivism, offering our society a more effective and humanistic alternative to the growing outcry for more prisons and more punishment.