Brenau University will participate in the Ninth Annual National Mock Mediation Tournament at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Nov. 6-8. More than 30 teams from around d the United States will participate.

Members of the Brenau team are Melissa Kreimer from Lawrenceville, Ga.; Mercy Changwesha from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; and Christina Poole from Covington, Ga.  The students were chosen because of their scores in mediation and advocacy in the recent Brenau University Invitational Mock Mediation Tournament held on Oct. 10-11. Both Changwesha and Poole won outstanding advocate awards at the Brenau tournament.  

Kreimer, who also won outstanding mediator honors at the Brenau tournament, is a senior majoring in conflict resolution and legal studies. Changwesha is a junior majoring in conflict resolution and legal studies. Poole is a first year student majoring in history and political science.

The coach for the mediation team, Kenneth Frank, director of the conflict resolution and legal studies program at Brenau notes that past teams have been very successful at this national tournament and expects this team will be highly competitive as well.

ABOUT BRENAU – Founded in 1878, Brenau University currently enrolls about 2,600 students in graduate, undergraduate and preparatory programs in the Academy; Women’s College; Evening and Weekend College; and Online College. The main campus of the Georgia-based liberal arts institution is in Gainesville with satellite campuses located in suburban Atlanta, Augusta and Kings Bay. Brenau’s 2009  ranking as the 10th-best higher education value in the Southeast by U.S. News & World Report marks the university’s third consecutive year in that position for the magazine’s America's Best Colleges guidebook.