Halmos Faculty, Alumna Present at Conflict Resolution Conference
McKay
Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., director of the doctoral program and faculty in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), presented at the 2022 Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference held in Orlando and virtually. She invited DCRS alumna, Michelle Cromwell, Ph.D., to co-present. The theme of the conference was Evolving Horizons in Conflict Resolution. McKay and Cromwell’s presentation was titled, Holistic Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Prevention and Intervention.
In addition, McKay is the faculty adviser to the Social Justice Roundtable and works with students in the community through Community Resolution Services (CRS), a practicum and volunteer site for DCRS. CRS hosts Story Café, We Love our Families series, The Women’s Roundtable, and is involved in offering workshops for the county’s Crisis Intervention Teams, and other events for community groups and organizations. She is also the Co-director of the NSU Council for Dialogue and Democracy (CDD).
Cromwell
McKay’s scholarly interests include conflict coaching, strategic community planning, violence prevention and intervention in family, neighborhood, and organizational conflicts. For more information about Community Resolution Services and the CDD please contact McKay at mckayj@nova.edu.
Michelle Cromwell, Ph.D., is an M.S. and Ph.D. graduate of DCRS. She is currently the inaugural Vice-President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging at Sonoran University of Health Sciences in Tempe, AZ. Previously she was named the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the State University of N.Y. at Plattsburgh and the Associate Vice President for Inclusive Excellence at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, and as the Chief Diversity Officer at The School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
In 2018, Cromwell was named as one of NSU’s Distinguished Alumni. In addition to Cromwell’s NSU graduate degrees, she received a B.Sc. in Social Work from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad where she was born.
Posted 12/11/22