Jessica Baen is a conflict resolution professional with expertise in peacebuilding, facilitation and cross-cultural communication. She is a Senior Facilitator and Trainer at Soliya and served previously as Staff Research Associate at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Her published writing covers topics including police-civilian relations in East Timor, diplomatic engagement in the Middle East and the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (The Guantanamo Lawyers, NYU Press, 2009). She has also authored personal essays in Dame Magazine, Gay City News, and Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism.