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Rhea has an MA in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University. In her current role as Community Justice Manager with Multnomah County Department of Community Justice Rhea is responsible for supporting Victim Services staff and addressing system gaps and barriers as her team works to enhance victim and survivor safety and healing in the criminal justice system. Rhea has spent the last decade committed to restorative justice as evidenced through various roles she has held working directly with crime victims/survivors and those who have caused harm as well as through implementation and oversight of victim offender dialogue programming. In 2017, Rhea was awarded Juvenile Justice Professional of the Year for the Metro Region by the Oregon Juvenile Department Directors Association. Rhea served as the Chair of the NW Justice Forum, on the Coordinating Committee of the Restorative Justice Coalition of Oregon and the board of the Oregon Peace Institute for several years. She recently published a peer reviewed volume with McFarland-- “Conflict Transformation: Essays on Methods of Nonviolence” that focuses on under-represented and marginalized voices within the field of Conflict Resolution. Lisa Kinard Lisa is the Victim Services Administrator for the Florida Department of Corrections and a graduate of Florida State University. Her career with the Department spans 34 years and includes service as a probation officer, prison classification officer as well as administrative positions including; assistant administrator of inmate records; confidentiality specialist; inmate transition coordinator; and Interstate Compact specialist for prison releasees’ and sex offenders’ supervision transfers.

Lisa is the Victim Services Administrator for the Florida Department of Corrections and a graduate of Florida State University. Her career with the Department spans 34 years and includes service as a probation officer, prison classification officer as well as administrative positions including; assistant administrator of inmate records; confidentiality specialist; inmate transition coordinator; and Interstate Compact specialist for prison releasees’ and sex offenders’ supervision transfers. Lisa has served as the Department’s Victim Services Administrator since 2016. Within that role she: manages 6 staff, accompanies and represents victims during capital case executions and serves as the FL Statewide VINE Program Manager. Lisa is a member of the Florida Crisis Response Team. She serves as Vice Chair with the National Association of Victim Assistance in Corrections and is an active member of the National Institute of Corrections’ Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers Network. Lisa was honored to receive the Peyton Tuthill Award by the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision in 2020 and the American Probation and Parole Association’s Joe Kegans Award for Victim Services in January. Lisa is happily married and blessed with 3 beautiful children who all have careers helping others.