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Zena D. Zumeta




Ann Arbor, Michigan


Zena D. Zumeta practices in the areas of family, employment, and civil mediation. A full time mediator since 1982, she teaches mediation in Michigan and nationally and does consulting and conflict intervention in organizations. She is also an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Michigan Law School, teaching in Michigan's first law school mediation clinic. Ms. Zumeta is a past board member of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, a past member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Committee of the State Bar of Michigan, and past president of the Academy of Family Mediators, the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, and the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan - Washtenaw Region. She is an Advanced Practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and has served on many of its committees. Ms. Zumeta has presented at national conferences for the American Bar Association, ACR, and the Association for Family and Conciliation Courts. As well as training, she presents regularly throughout the United States and Michigan and is the only trainer in Michigan approved as both a civil and domestic relations mediation trainer. Ms. Zumeta is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from ACR; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.
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