About Us

Six Rivers Mediation is a non-profit community dispute resolution center housed with the Mid Columbia Council of Governments. We receive funding from local, state and federal organizations in order to provide low cost conflict resolution and education services to the Mid Columbia region. Our mediators and facilitators are highly trained community volunteers dedicated to helping people solve problems and resolve conflict. We strive to create positive conversations and a safe environment for settling disputes, as well as education and training opportunities.

Marti Kantola, Founder and Director
marti@6rivers.org

Marti has 12 years strategic communications process design, negotiations, collaboration and dispute resolution experience. She brings creative problem solving orientation and results-oriented facilitation expertise. Words can create a thousand pictures, she ensures you are heard and the results you envision are the ones you will see. Marti holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech: Rhetoric and Communications. Ms. Kantola was a professor of Communications and Co-Director of Forensics at the University of Alaska where she taught Communications, interpersonal and small group dynamics as well as argument and debate.

Emily Plummer, Mediator Coordinator
emily@6rivers.org

After completing her undergraduate in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, Emily followed her passion for environmental conservation, working as a resource technician for watershed groups in Oregon and Washington State. From experience working with a diverse array of stakeholder groups to find ways to meet resource use and conservation needs, Emily is committed to community based collaboration and problem solving as a way to move towards creative solutions that address everyone’s interests. In 2009, Emily began mediating with Six Rivers and in 2011 set out to continue her education with Portland State University’s Master of Conflict Resolution.