Larry Schooler directs community engagement, public participation and conflict resolution projects for the city of Austin, Texas. A public-engagement consultant and researcher, he also is a senior fellow at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin and an adjunct lecturer at Southern Methodist University. He is a former president of the International Association for Public Participation.
Schooler holds a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution and is pursuing a doctorate in the same field. He is the author of a manual entitled "The 'Public' in Public Policy: Keys to a Successful Community Meeting" and a forthcoming book on the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States and related projects elsewhere. In his former career, he was a reporter for National Public Radio stations across the country and a freelance reporter for NPR, Voice of America and magazines.
