2024 Conflict Resolution Alliance
Officers and Directors
President: Richard “Dick” Mosher has been a Hawai`i attorney, arbitrator and mediator since 1972 and on the Board of the Conflict Resolution Alliance since 2016. He is an arbitrator-mediator for the American Arbitration Association, a mediator for the Japan Arbitration Association, a Senior Advisor to The Vanguard Network in New York, and mediator for the Hawai`i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution’s Appellate Mediation Program. Dick holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Attorney Rating in Law and Ethics and has been recognized as a Stonewall Day Global Ambassador with Pride Live. Dick has served as state Chapter President and chaired three National Committees for the Association of Corporate Counsel. He also taught Ethics courses at Richardson Law School at UH Mānoa, in addition to serving on several previous national and international Corporate Officer and Board positions.
President-Elect: Jack Moore is a lecturer teaching mediation at University of Hawai’i’s Matsunaga Institute for Peace. He was raised on O`ahu, and earned a Master of Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University’s Strauss Institute. He previously worked in the non-profit sector, serving military service members and families. Jack is honored to return to his home and teach the next generation about mediation and ADR. As Conflict Resolution Alliance President-Elect, Jack looks forward to continuing to connect and enrich the ADR and legal communities in Hawai`i.
Secretary: Lisa Jacobs is a Mediator, Collaborative Attorney, Facilitator, Speaker, and Trainer, and owner of the firm, Better Way Divorce, also known as Pono Divorce, where she devotes 100% percent of her practice in helping families avoid court battles and create their own solutions. Lisa is also Co-Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Hawai`i State Bar Association and a Mediator, Facilitator, Trainer and Speaker at the Mediation Center of the Pacific. Lisa also participates as a Director for EPIC ‘Ohana and speaks about legal issues at the Second Saturday Honolulu Divorce Workshop for Women. Lisa also regularly trained law students at the University of Hawai`i to help enhance their mediation skills. Lisa has been a Hawai`i- licensed attorney since 1994.
Treasurer and Immediate Past President: Robert D. Lillis is the Past President of IAM & AW LL in Honolulu. He is also Former Vice Chair for the Labor Education Advisory Council (LEAC), University of Hawai`i-West Oahu. Robert retired last year as a Marine Machinery Mechanic at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. He is a 6-year veteran of the US Navy qualified Nuclear Power, Submarine Service. He is a certified Department of Navy Mediator with over 70 completed mediations and has been representing federal employees for over 25 years.
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Directors – 2 year term will expire on December 31, 2025
José Barzola has a passion for creating social change through nonviolence, nurturing relationships that transcend cultural barriers, and focusing on issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity. He is a highly organized higher education administrator with 20 years of experience and success in administration, student development within academic and student affairs. José has also been an affiliate faculty teaching courses on peace and conflict transformation, a professional mediator and facilitator for over 10 years both in New York and Hawaii. He is currently the Conflict and Peace Specialist at the Office of the Provost and Affiliate Faculty at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Lisa Jacobs is a Mediator, Collaborative Attorney, Facilitator, Speaker, and Trainer, and owner of the firm, Better Way Divorce, also known as Pono Divorce, where she devotes 100% percent of her practice in helping families avoid court battles and create their own solutions. Lisa is also Co-Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Hawai`i State Bar Association and a Mediator, Facilitator, Trainer and Speaker at the Mediation Center of the Pacific. Lisa also participates as a Director for EPIC ‘Ohana and speaks about legal issues at the Second Saturday Honolulu Divorce Workshop for Women. Lisa also regularly trained law students at the University of Hawai`i to help enhance their mediation skills. Lisa has been a Hawai`i- licensed attorney since 1994.
Robert D. Lillis is the Past President of IAM & AW LL in Honolulu. He is also Former Vice Chair for the Labor Education Advisory Council (LEAC), University of Hawai`i-West Oahu. Robert retired last year as a Marine Machinery Mechanic at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. He is a 6-year veteran of the US Navy qualified Nuclear Power, Submarine Service. He is a certified Department of Navy Mediator with over 70 completed mediations and has been representing federal employees for over 25 years.
Tricia Morris is a full time mediator with a background in finance. She is also a financial consultant for parties using collaborative law to resolve disputes, helping them to clarify complex financial and difficult problems. She cares deeply about empowering her clients to work together to move beyond conflict and bring things back into balance. She is a volunteer mediator for Maui Mediation Services.
Kate Sims has a variety of roles at the West Hawai’i Mediation Center (WHMC) in Kona, Hawai`i Island: mediator, coach/trainer, and coordinator of workplace dispute services. After a 40 year career in education, she joined WHMC in 2021 as the case manager and mediator for the Act 57 Landlord Tenant Mediation Program. Outside of her position at the Center, she teaches mediation at U.H. Mānoa. She has a Masters in Teaching Writing and Literature from U.C. Berkeley and a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution from Spark Matsunaga Institute at U.H. Mānoa. She has lived in the ahupua`a of Kaloko for 34 years, and is an avid walker and ocean swimmer.
Continuing Directors – Terms will expire on December 31, 2024
Borjana Lubura-Winchester was born and raised in Sarajevo – Bosnia, and Herzegovina. When she was 17, civil war broke in her country. Borjana experienced two harsh years of war, followed by five as a refugee. She lost many family members and friends and witnessed the devastating impact of war. Upon return to Sarajevo, Borjana worked at the NATO base as a liaison and interpreter between local contractors and international peacebuilding forces, helping overcome the obstacles that communities face while trying to rebuild peace and live together. In 2005, Borjana came to Hawai`i and earned an Associates’ degree with honors from Leeward Community College, a BA with Honors in Geography and Geographic Information Systems, and MA in Geopolitics with a focus on Humanitarian Interventions, both from UH Mānoa. In 2011, she began facilitating with the Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution, where she earned a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. Borjana has received a Ph.D. on critical geopolitics of migrations along the Western Balkan Route and is a Lecturer of Geography and Peace Studies at UH Mānoa. Her motivation comes from personal experience as a refugee to bring voice and humanize people on the move subjected to extreme violence daily as they are trying to reach a safer and better life in the European Union.
Jack Moore is a lecturer teaching mediation at University of Hawai’i’s Matsunaga Institute for Peace. He was raised on O`ahu, and earned a Master of Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University’s Strauss Institute. He previously worked in the non-profit sector, serving military servicemembers and families. Jack is honored to return to his home and teach the next generation about mediation and ADR. As Conflict Resolution Alliance President-Elect, Jack looks forward to continuing to connect and enrich the ADR and legal communities in Hawai`i.
Richard “Dick” Mosher has been a Hawai`i attorney, arbitrator and mediator since 1972 and on the Board of the Conflict Resolution Alliance since 2016. He is an arbitrator-mediator for the American Arbitration Association, a mediator for the Japan Arbitration Association, a Senior Advisor to The Vanguard Network in New York, and mediator for the Hawai`i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution’s Appellate Mediation Program. Dick holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Attorney Rating in Law and Ethics and has been recognized as a Stonewall Day Global Ambassador with Pride Live. Dick has served as state Chapter President and chaired three National Committees for the Association of Corporate Counsel. He also taught Ethics courses at Richardson Law School at UH Mānoa, in addition to serving on several previous national and international Corporate Officer and Board positions.
Lisa Nakao is the Quality Assurance Director and Hawai`i Office Manager at Better Business Bureau Great West and Pacific. She oversees service quality assurance and investigation departments that include Alternative Dispute Resolution program for marketplace disputes in eight states including Hawai`i, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Denver Metro area of Colorado and Western Wyoming. After graduating from high school in Japan, she obtained Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing and International Business from University of Hawai`i. She loves the peaceful way people chooses to resolve conflicts in Hawaiian culture and hopes the Conflict Resolution Alliance will be able to showcase it to the rest of the country.
Katie Ranney is the Program Development Director for The Mediation Center of the Pacific. She is responsible for creating, managing, and promoting the various special programs at MCP as well as managing internal and public training. As a peacebuilder, independent facilitator and communication consultant for the last 17 years, Katie has worked mostly with nonprofits and government agencies to create substantial plans to strengthen and advance their endeavors. She graduated summa cum laude from Santa Clara University and earned her Master’s in Communication from UH Mānoa, with a certification in conflict resolution. She is interested in the development and practice of empathy as well as how digital communication helps groups connect and organize, and hopes to apply it to her work at home in Hawai`i.
Anne Marie Smoke is Appellate Mediation Program Administrator and Trainer for the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Hawai‘i State Judiciary. With a graduate certificate in conflict resolution and MS in Travel Industry Management (sustainable tourism), Anne gravitated toward collaborative community building where she became an active facilitator for multiple policy-development and strategic planning initiatives. Her 16 years of training experience includes teaching conflict management practices to local businesses, the Naval Station Pearl Harbor, and various governmental agencies including the Department of Health, and the Advanced Management Leadership Program at the City and County of Honolulu. Anne has also been an invited speaker for the national chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier Int’l. Anne spent seven years as Ed Specialist and Program Mgr. at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace, UH Mānoa, College of Social Sciences. She has served on the Executive Board of Conflict Resolution Alliance for 15 years, including two terms as President. In addition to her ADR and training background, Anne applies her experience in marketing, promotions, and public relations to her outreach work at the Center.
