Teddy Nemeroff

Theodore (Teddy) N. Nemeroff "is a Project Coordinator at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) and a Program Associate with the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue.

"He founded the first Sustained Dialogue on a university campus at Princeton in 1999 and subsequently helped to form the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, which helps student leaders at 15 institutions in the United States improve race relations on their campuses.  From 2003 through 2006, Teddy was based South Africa, where he established a Unit at Idasa that uses Sustained Dialogue as a technique for peace building, community development, and teaching democratic skills regionally.  Teddy is currently leading a research project for Idasa in cooperation with the Kettering Foundation, looking at the link between community politics, conflict, and economic development.  Beyond his work Africa and the United States, he has consulted for institutions running dialogue programs in New Zealand and Jamaica.  Teddy lives in New York City, where he is studying at the Columbia University School of Law."