Ellen Kandell, is an attorney with over 30 years of diverse legal experience in the public and private sectors. She is the President of Alternative Resolutions, LLC which provides mediation, arbitration, group facilitation and training. Her passion is working with organizations to resolve team and system wide conflicts. She has mediated cases for Adventist HealthCare, Toyota, professional practices, private schools and local, state and federal agencies. She is an Adjunct Professor at Catholic University of America. Ellen is past president of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution and past co-chair of the ADR section of the Montgomery County Bar Association. Prior to opening her own firm in 1999, Ms. Kandell was in the environmental enforcement office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and managed their alternative dispute resolution program. She has a JD from Temple University and a BS from the University of Maryland, is a member of the Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.