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Dorian Fougères, Ph.D.

Dorian Fougères is a Lead Mediator who facilitates public policy processes where state, federal, tribal, and local government agencies can have meaningful and productive conversations with diverse stakeholders, including engineers, farmers, planners, and California Native Americans. His work focuses on water & land resources, and extends to emergency management, mental health and other social issues. Dorian’s areas of professional expertise include conflict assessments and resolution, collaborative visioning and strategic planning, organizational diagnosis, communication planning, and facilitation training, with secondary expertise in large-scale public involvement. He works with many different types of groups, from executive boards and commissions through stakeholder, technical, and community-based groups. As of January 2011, his major projects include the California Water Plan, Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, Novato Baylands Restoration (San Francisco Bay), and Sierra National Forest (Dinkey Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration).

Dorian comes to the Center from academia. He studied participatory action research as an undergraduate at Cornell, and completed his Ph.D. in political ecology at UC Berkeley in 2005. He has lived and worked extensively in Indonesia, including providing facilitation and collaborative process design in West Papua (Bird’s Head Seascape), and is a member of Mediators Beyond Borders. His pro bono work supports cultural, music, and fashion organizations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has been with the Center since late 2007.