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Sheila Cranman is Assistant Chief Counsel II – Export & Trade - in the Office of General Counsel at the Georgia Institute of Technology “Georgia Tech”.  She recently completed the Georgia Tech Leading Women of Tech Leadership Program.  In 2018, Sheila participated in the GT Inclusive Leaders Academy, the Adaptive Leadership Workshop and the Georgia Tech Diversity & Inclusion (DI) Fellows’ program. Her DI Fellows’ project to train graduate students in conflict resolution skills is institutionalized in some Responsible Conduct of Research courses for first year graduate students.  In recent years, Sheila spoke about export controls and trade compliance at the Association of University Export Control Officer (AUECO) Conference, the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics Higher Education Conference (SCCE), the Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA) Conference and the National Association of College and University Attorneys fall advanced workshop. February 2024, she spoke about university export compliance programs at a virtual Deloitte roundtable discussion for universities in the United Kingdom

Sheila is a mediator with experience mediating family, juvenile, special education, small claims/landlord tenant and business disputes.   She taught mediation as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas Little Rock (UALR) William H. Bowen School of Law where she developed and directed a juvenile mediation clinic.  While at the UALR Bowen School of Law, Sheila worked with the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service to teach mediation skills to local police officers.  Sheila directed a juvenile court mediation program in Georgia that was a pilot program for deprivation/dependency neglect mediation.