Biography
Grande Lum is Director of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School which houses the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program and the Gould Alternative Dispute Research Initiative. A San Francisco native, his scholarship and work focus on civil rights community-based mediation, consensus building, dispute facilitation, polarization prevention, negotiation, mediation, and public policy.
Prior to joining Stanford Law School, he was senior partner at the Rebuild Congress Initiative, a program of the Harvard Negotiation Project and Issue One. Previously he served as a professor as well as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Menlo College in Atherton, California. Prior to joining Menlo, he was the founding director of the Divided Community Project at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Lum was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the US Senate unanimously as director of the Community Relations Service (CRS), an agency within the Department of Justice. Before joining CRS, Lum was clinical professor at the UC Law San Francisco, where he directed the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.
He is the co-author of America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights as well as the author of the books The Negotiation Fieldbook and Tear Down the Wall: Be Your Own Mediator in Conflict. He has been interviewed and quoted by numerous print and broadcast media, including National Public Radio, USA Today, and ProPublica.
