Sue Hopgood
worked for Alberta Conflict Transformation Society for 15 years. In her role there, she was the program coordinator, facilitator and trainer. Sue holds a degree in Criminal Justice from Athabasca University and is currently a director for Engage-Restorative Practices.
Currently, Sue is working for the City of Edmonton in the Respect in the Workplace as Workplace Restoration Consultant, assisting city employees address conflict restoratively.
Sue has done extensive work in the area of restorative justice and restorative practices in schools, the community and the criminal justice system. She was trained as a Community Conferencing facilitator in 1998 by David Moore and John McDonald from TJA Australia and in 2000, after 2 years of facilitating experience was trained as a trainer by the same organization.
Sue has facilitated over 700 community conferences, ranging from grade one name-calling to fatality situations. She and Caroline have conducted over 75 facilitator trainings.
Sue has been a board member for the Alberta Criminal Justice Association and is a current board member of Family Futures Resource Network (formerly, Millwoods Family Resource Centre).