Ona Ferguson

Ona Ferguson is a Senior Associate at the Consensus Building Institute, where she designs and facilitates meetings about environmental and public policy issues. Recent projects include designing and facilitating the founding meetings of the National Community Land Trust Network, facilitating a symposium on air quality in Boston, co-facilitating a task force on solid waste planning for the State of Maine, and moderating public forums on rethinking urban transportation at the Museum of Science in Boston. Ona co-manages a coalition of agencies and organizations working to improve air quality in the Boston area through voluntary programs. She assists the lead facilitator of a community advisory group that works with the EPA and GE to oversee dredging PCBs from the Hudson River. Ona has facilitated small group dialogues on issues as diverse as managing federal lands, diversity among high school students, and regional collaboration across state and municipal boundaries.

Ona has co-authored multiple situation and conflict assessments, including an assessment of the potential for negotiated rulemaking of off-road vehicle use on Cape Hatteras National Seashore and a stakeholder assessment for the North American State of the Carbon Cycle Report. She has developed and delivered courses on negotiation and communication skills for conservationists, and manages an ongoing series of courses on resolving land use disputes.

Ona has a Masters of Environmental Management degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she studied Land Use Law and Policy, and a B.A. from Smith College.

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