About

Since 1993, Dr. Barbara Sunderland Manousso, a Texas Credentialed Distinguish Mediator and CEO of Manousso Mediation and Arbitration, LLC., has received countless awards and organizational affiliations, and has trained thousands of mediators and arbitrators. She has mediated over 3,000 civil and family cases and has presented over 1,500 papers on mediation dynamics, theory, ethics, marketing, and skills, nationally and internationally. Since 2005, Dr. Manousso has been an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, teaching Global Conflict Management to graduate and undergraduate students. She is former chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution International’s Education, Research, and Training and Health Care sections and Fellow in the World Mediation Organization. Awarded the 2019 Suzanne Adams Award by the Texas Association of Mediators (Top Mediator) Awarded the 2018 Woman Who Means Business in Professional Services by the Houston Business Journal Awarded 2019 Mentor Monday for Women by the Houston Business Journal Awarded 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Conflict Resolution Houston Chapter. Awarded 2016 Lifetime Achievement in International Mediation by V. M. Salgaocar College of Law in Goa, India Awarded the 2006 One of Houston’s Most 50 Influential Women by Houston Women’s Magazine Awarded the 1993 Humanitarium Award by the Eqyptian Governor of Suez Graduate of Brown University (BA); University of Texas School of Public Health (MPH); Nova Southeastern University (Ph.D.)