Peter Maida, Ph.D., J.D.
Executive Director of the Key Bridge Foundation

Email: pmaida@keybridge.org

Dr. Maida has mediated disputes since 1985 between professionals, employer/employee, consumer/business, and in the areas of civil rights, EEO, commercial, human relations,
health care, and domestic relations.

He is the Executive Director of the Key Bridge Foundation. His clients have included the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Energy, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has also provided training to many private, municipal,
and state government agencies.

He was a full-time permanent faculty member at the University of Maryland for twenty-five years.
He has lectured at ICAR, George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia, and the American University in Washington, DC. He currently serves on a number of national mediation panels for employment dispute resolution, including the U.S. Postal Service REDRESS panel. He has been training mediators for approximately 25 years.

Lewis Dabney joined the Key Bridge Foundation in January 2000. He has a Master's of Science degree from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia, and certificates in Conflict Resolution and Human Rights Protection from the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Anthropology and Religious Studies. Among other responsibilities at KBF. Lewis coordinates international projects, most recently serving as a consultant on a Judicial Reform project for the World Bank in Ecuador.

Donzell Robinson has done extensive advocacy work for the last 12 years in the area of Americans with disabilities as a Complainant Liaison for the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. He is currently a professional mediator certified by the Maryland Council of Dispute Resolution and is recognized by the Association of Conflict Resolution (the national industry organization) as a practitioner and trainer.

Donzell specializes in workplace, domestic, civil and healthcare mediation as well as mediation training in those areas. His experience includes being appointed a mediator in the Circuit Court of Maryland to mediate issues of custody and visitation, and an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau. Mr. Robinson has provided consultation and training in the areas of disability rights, ADR programs and issues related to developing cultural competence and sensitivity training.