Kroc School of Peace Studies at University of San Diego. She has taught courses on international, community and organizational conflict prevention and resolution at George Mason University (Arlington, Virginia), National Taurida Vernatsky University (Simferopol, Ukraine), and California State University (Dominguez Hills). Dr. Carpenter has worked on numerous initiatives as a mediator, facilitator, trainer, and conflict resolution consultant, and is a research advisor for the National Conflict Resolution Center, the San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention and the Advisory Council on Human and Child Sex Trafficking. She was born in Omaha, Arkansas.