Grande Lum

Grande Lum is Professor and Provost at Menlo College. He enjoys writing, teaching, and working on issues that help people and communities work together in more constructive ways. Prior to joining Menlo, he was Director of the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Previously, Grande Lum was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2012 as the Director of the Community Relations Service (CRS), an agency within the Department of Justice.

Before joining CRS, Grande Lum was a clinical professor at the University of California Hastings School of the Law, where he directed the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. He is the author of The Negotiation Fieldbook (McGraw-Hill 2nd Edition, 2010); Tear Down the Wall: Be Your Own Mediator in Conflict (Optimality, 2013); and America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights (the University of Missouri, 2020. Co-authored with Bertram Levine), which won the 2020 International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s Annual Book Award. Grande received the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, Lawyer as Problem Solver on behalf of the DCP (2018) and CRS (2014), Outstanding Contribution to the Field from The Mediation Society (2016), and the Association of Conflict Resolution Peacemaker Award, on behalf of CRS (2013).