“In polarizing times constructive dialogue is a must-have.” This is what my friend and former DOJ colleague Grande Lum wrote to me. No one knows this better than he does.

Grande was the Director of DOJ’s Community Relations Service from 2012 to 2016. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Currently a professor at Stanford Law School, he focuses on negotiation and mediation. He was also a senior partner in the Rebuild Congress Initiative at the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School.