Carl Smallwood
Carl Smallwood is the Director of the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Moritz College of Law. Launched in 2015, DCP is housed in the nation’s #1 ranked The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s Program on Dispute Resolution.
Carl, a 1980 Moritz College of Law graduate, has taught Resolving Community Civil Rights Disputes at Moritz as a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence. He has moderated and facilitated programs for large audiences engaged in transformational solution-oriented discussions exploring processes to convene groups across division in troubled times, access to legal services, threats to self-regulation of the legal profession, and diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, among other topics.
Carl is a past president of the Columbus Bar Association and of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. In his role as a bar leader, he worked to develop – and chair – the Greater Columbus Community Trust Initiative, the model ‘community leadership team’ format used in DCP’s National Academy initiatives.
He was the founding president of the Law and Leadership Institute, LLC (a non-profit Moritz helped to create to provide a statewide pipeline program in Ohio for promising high school students), and has rendered remarkable contributions to the University, culminating in its awarding him The Ohio State’s University’s Distinguished Service Award.
Carl looks forward to collaborating with leaders and communities interested in DCP’s work and can be reached at smallwood.21@osu.edu.