Angela teaches graduate courses in mediation, family conflict dynamics, and gender and culture conflict management at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Master's Program in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management. She is also an adjunct lecturer for Abilene Christian University's conflict resolution program. Prior to her work in Texas, Angela worked within the legal and dispute resolution fields in Singapore, where she resided for a number of years. In her native South Africa, she was an attorney. She has over 25 years' management experience in the legal and dispute resolution fields internationally. Angela has also worked with high schools, locally and internationally, to train peer mediators and implement peer mediation programs. Together with her husband, Angela is also a pre-marital counseling facilitator and earned her Master of Science in Counseling at SMU in 2021. Angela has a passion to impart critical life skills to others in order to equip them to navigate life more effectively in a world often filled with conflict and pressure. From personal experience, she believes these skills can be learned, practiced and applied successfully. Angela has been married to the love of her life, Michael, for 30 years. They have two darling children, Keziah and Matthew, and the family resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Shannon earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Washington. She worked at an inpatient facility before moving into Personnel Psychology for city government. Following the birth of her first child, Shannon left the traditional workforce but continued her passion of helping others through church ministry, as a natural childbirth instructor, doula, and childcare provider. Shannon loves hiking, music, reading, blogging and spending time with her family--particularly in a mountainous locale. Being the child of a Coast Guardsman, Shannon lived in several different states, but claims Alaska as her home. Married to her college sweetheart, Aaron, a pilot, shortly following graduation and are the parents of Sierra, her husband Jayson, and Tanner. They currently live in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
