About Marvin Schwartz

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Marvin Schwartz is an experienced workplace mediator and mediation skills trainer.

Marvin studied law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC.  After briefly working with a small general practice law firm, he joined the US Commission on Civil Rights as a staff attorney.  His focus there was primarily on developing background information, and on interviewing and selecting witnesses for Commission hearings held throughout the United States on school desegregation, employment discrimination, and Indian, non-Indian conflicts of culture.  He also wrote portions of and reviewed Commission reports that were ultimately provided directly to the President and Congress of the United States.

Marvin helped design the basic mediation training program of Community Boards of San Francisco, and he has trained over 2,400 people in mediation skills for workplace and community conflicts.  This includes training internal mediation teams for large private, government and educational institution employers.  Many of the trainees have been human resource professionals, and in one case, he trained the entire US based HR department of an airline with 80,000 employees worldwide.

Marvin has led workshop sessions at NCHRA annual conferences and also at a national Association for Conflict Resolution annual conference.

Marvin is a builder of communities and has served as Chairman of the SF Governing Board of Community Boards and President of a Homeowners Association.  He currently informally represents the interests of Oakland swimmers in matters affecting pool facilities coming before Oakland City government.