About the Authors
Grande Lum
Grande Lum is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Menlo College in Atherton, California. 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). 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). He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley and a law degree from Harvard.
Bertram Levine (1919 - 2006)
Bertram Levine was an Associate Director of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice. Upon his retirement from the agency, he wrote "Resolving Racial Conflict: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights, 1964-1989" (2005), which he described as a history of the civil rights movement, told through the eyes of those who worked at a small, federal agency dedicated to the resolution of local community conflict.
He was born in New York and graduated from Syracuse University. He served in the Army during World War II and the Korean War, rising to the rank of captain. He worked on civil rights for the American Jewish Committee in New York before moving to Washington in 1965. He helped draft Rockville's human relations law and was a commissioner on the Montgomery County Human Relations Commission.