Martha Harty

Marthy Harty, "Adjunct Senior Lecturer, directs research and development at the Heartwood Institute, which promotes ethical understanding and practice through literature-based curriculums for pre-K and elementary children. She teaches "American Criminal Justice" for the CMU Philosophy Department's Applied Ethics Center. She also mediates regularly for the Pittsburgh Mediation Center and provides mediation, facilitation, and conflict consulting services for private clients. She received her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science in 1988 from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. in Economics in 1978 from Bryn Mawr College.

"Harty's main interest is management of human conflict. The search for solutions to conflict has led her to learn and practice mediation, to study cultural differences and to develop tools for teaching people to handle conflict and relationships in constructive and ethical ways. She has produced two interactive CD-ROMs, Allwyn Hall and In All Respects, as well as articles, training materials, videos and Web sites dealing with conflict resolution, diversity and ethics education."