Board of Directors

Meagan Robbins – President

As a family law attorney and mediator, Meagan finds mediation to be one of the most useful and valuable tools for her clients. In addition to private practice, she is active in the non-profit community. She co-founded and operates an organization called Clear Transitions PDX that provides informational divorce workshops for women held monthly. Meagan brings her belief in mediation as a versatile resource, her energy, and her dedication to support OMA’s growth and relevance across the state of Oregon.

Sunny Sassaman – Vice President

Sunny Sassaman grew up in Southern California and arrived in Portland a few years ago after 20 years of residing in Hawaii. Always passionate about fairness and access to justice, she became a volunteer mediator with Mediation Services of Maui before starting her mediation practice in 2001. She has a Master’s in Negotiation and Conflict Management from Cal State Dominguez Hills, is a former president of ACR, has worked in and provides services to private, non-profit and governmental agencies, served as a lecturer for UH Manoa and WSU-Vancouver, and is a Reservist ADR Advisor for FEMA.

Taran Nadler – Secretary

Taran (he/him/his) grew up in Oregon and after a seven year sabbatical moved back to his home state in 2014. Although Taran doesn’t actively practice mediation, he is an experienced facilitator who is passionate about conflict resolution and human rights work. Taran works as a Quality Assurance Coordinator for Multnomah County Aging and Disability Adult Protective Services. Taran has a variety of experience with non-project organizations including legal work for the UN and Al-Haq, and volunteer work for Rogue Climate, and 350 PDX. Taran’s non work loves includes snapping pictures, listening for birds and sharing inane jokes with friends.

Sunsong Firedancer 

Sunsong Firedancer (They/Them pronouns) is a Transplant to Portland. Born in Ohio and raised primarily in the South (Knoxville Tennessee) they attended highschool and college back in the midwest where they first began learning mediation skills. They are currently employed as the Governance Director and Co Mediation Director at Resolutions Northwest where they focus on anti racism and equity informed mediation services.

Sarah Osborn

Sarah (she/her/hers) is a student member of OMA and has been the co-covenor of 2019, 2020, and 2021 OMA conferences. She is the Program Coordinator for the Student Conflict Resolution Center within the University of Oregon’s Ombuds department. She will graduate in May 2021 with a Masters in Conflict and Dispute Resolution and a Doctor of Jurisprudence. Sarah is passionate about expanding the diversity of communities that mediators serve and using a cross-cultural perspective in collaborative decision-making.

Kyra Duffy – Treasurer

Kyra is a current graduate student in the Dispute and Conflict Resolution program at University of Oregon School of Law. She has been working in social justice organizations for the last ten years and believes alternative dispute resolution practices have the power to transform our approach to conflict. Kyra has participated as a lobby corps member for the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and is passionate about criminal justice reform. She currently works at a nonprofit in Eugene as part of the administrative team and is settling back into Oregon after being in Texas for the last ten years — she is happy to be back in the Pacific Northwest!

Marita Deleon

Marita I. DeLeon (she/her/hers) has worked primarily in non-profit organizations for the past 15 years, most recently as the Communications Coordinator at Proud Ground. She spent four years on The City of Seattle’s Racial Justice Core Team IV, where she participated in trainings and city-wide discussions regarding equity, diversity and inclusion in policies and procedures. Marita has developed and facilitated anti-oppression and race and social justice curriculum for students, staff and groups of volunteers, assisted in organizational assessments and development of programs, is skilled at social media and marketing, and has provided mediation/conflict resolution for small groups.

Jack Hollis

Jack (he/him/his) started his mediation career in 2016 with the East County Resolutions while looking for a more effective way to serve his community. Volunteering his time as a mediator with the City of Gresham for the past four years has given Jack valuable insights into how mediation functions across the diverse needs of a community. He concurrently worked as an Administrator for the City of Gresham with the East County Resolutions for two years. In this position he worked to streamline and expand the Oregon Department of Human Services facilitation contract, including transitioning the contract to virtual application.

Jack is looking forward to using his experience working with community dispute resolution centers to help the OMA board shape the future of our profession.

Tzofnat Peleg-Baker

Dr. Tzofnat Peleg-Baker is a social psychologist and scholar-practitioner of dialogue, conflict, mediation, and diversity & inclusion. She has taught and practiced across continents and currently teaches conflict, negotiation, and diversity & inclusion MBA and college students. She earned a Ph.D. in social psychology, focusing on conflict transformation, Ph.D. (ABD) & M.A. with a specialty in conflict and mediation (reflective practice to improve mediation decision-making and outcomes), and an M.A. in Communications. She recently moved to Portland from the NYC metropolitan area, where she was the director of a Community Dispute Resolution Center (CDRC). In Israel, Tzofnat served as the Head of Strategy at the Center for Conflict Resolution at Ministry of Justice and was a member of the national team that introduced ADR in the country, served as a community and organizational mediator, and led democratic reforms in the educational system as well as inter-group dialogues between religious and secular groups, Jews and Arabs, and Israelis and Palestinians.