Mark Chupp, MSW, PhD, is an associate professor at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Science of Case Western Reserve University, where he chairs the concentration in Community Practice for Social Change in the Masters of Social Work Program. With over 30 years of research and practice focused on community building, community development, conflict transformation and citizen participation, Mark began his career in restorative justice, eventually directing the first Victim Offender Reconciliation Program in the U.S. Mark has also served as a consultant with the National Institute of Justice, helping establish victim offender mediation programs across the country. He is an international consultant and trainer in conflict transformation and peace building and has worked in Northern Ireland, Egypt, Israel, Columbia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. Mark directs the Community Innovation Network, a resource for communities and practitioners committed to community change and is the Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University. He co-authored a manual in Spanish on transforming conflict and violence that has been used throughout Latin America. Mark earned a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan with a concentration in community organization and moved to Cleveland in 1997 to pursue his PhD at CWRU while serving for 8 years as Program Director at the Center for Neighborhood Development, Levin College of Urban Affairs at CSU.