Ms. Mayer spent most of her professional life working with traditional nonprofit organizations as well as with universities and churches.� As a manager, a consultant and a mediator she worked with groups to prevent or cure the crises which occurred as they pursued their missions.� After working as an Executive Director of a nonprofit, she worked with Habitat for Humanity International, most recently as the director of a unit she designed called Risk Prevention and Response.� She has conducted workshops and trainings in conflict management, executive transition management, and risk prevention.� She has a M.S.W. and a Certificate in Dispute Resolution. She has lived and worked in… Scotland, Hong Kong and Jamaica, and currently resides in the Chesapeake region of Virginia.