Biography

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