Linda Harvey

Linda Harvey

Founder and Program Director
Consultant, Trainer, and Mediator

Linda Harvey began her career as a social worker in 1963 and as a community volunteer she has started numerous organizations to meet human needs. She has been a mediator for fifteen years in the areas of family and the workplace as well as in victim-offender cases dealing with homicide, religious sexual misconduct, embezzlement, community, and human rights cases. She is an active member of Association for Conflict Resolution and has served as co-chair of the Restorative and Criminal Justice Section.

Linda practices and provides training in traditional mediation, transformative mediation (one of 35 candidates to pilot nationally), and restorative justice. She has presented at numerous mediation workshops and she is a published writer in the field. In 2002 she was the fifth person inducted into the University of Kentucky Social Work Hall of Fame.

Linda works also as a project coordinator, consultant, trainer, and mediator for the Center for Policy, Planning, and Performance. She is a columnist and journalist for religious press and serves as Workshop Chair for Reconciliation Networks of the World and also as the Kentucky Coordinator for the African Fund for Relief and Education. She makes her home in Lexington, Kentucky.

Linda Harvey Curriculum Vitae

Positions, Roles, and Awards

President of the Restorative Justice Council on Sexual Misconduct in Faith Communities, an organization which focuses on alternatives to litigation such as by training experienced mediators in restorative mediation in a multi-discipline system as well as by providing consultation and mediation directly.

Association for Conflict Resolution and international conflict resolution activities:

  • Past Co-Chair of the Restorative and Criminal Justice Section

  • Advanced Practitioner with the Family Section

  • Member of the Spirituality and International Sections

  • Member of the Program Committee which planned the 2004 Annual Conference in Sacramento, CA from September 29 through October 2, 2004.
Linda is a member of the Victim Offender Mediation Association and past board member of the National Association for Community Mediation, and she is Co-founder or founder of the following organizations:
  • The Mediation Association of Kentucky

  • Mediation Center of Kentucky

  • Transformation House

  • Restorative Justice Council

Additional positions:

  • The International Task Force for Reconciliation Networks of the World

  • Planning Team for Kentucky Women as Peacemakers

  • Kentucky coordinator for the African Fund for Relief and Education

  • Coordinator for the citywide Reconciliation Breakfast of 2005

  • Columnist and journalist for religious press.