Mette Brogden, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Practice in SBS/Graduate Programs in Human Rights Practice HRTS) She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who has overseen the resettlement of over 6,000 refugees to the U.S. while serving in leadershipositions in government and NGOs. Her work has included refugee reception and placement, policy development, program administration, evaluation, and research on the refugee resettlement experience among refugees and receiving communities after 9-11. Her previous careers were in environmental and public policy conflict resolution, and as a psychotherapist in community mental health centers. She facilitated numerous multi-stakeholder policy-development processes across local, state, and national levels while managing the Environmental and Public Policy Conflict Resolution Program at UA’s Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. Mette's research interests include international migration; trauma impacts and social healing from extreme violence, human rights violations and colonial legacies; environmental justice, rights of species and ecological systems; facilitation of multi-stakeholder policy development processes; how NGOs gain traction from start-uto scale-up; and developing communities of practice that provide social capital and collegial support among people working to address complex, intractable troubles. Her current research site is in northern Ghana, with World Institute of Africa Culture and Traditions WIACT) an indigenous education institute which focuses on documenting tribal elders’ knowledge.