Joanne Lauterjung is an active member of Board of Advisors of BBS  and is supporting BBS to reach best potential in peacebuilding works in Myanmar. Joanne's experience is in cultivating linkages across sectors, enabling dialogue among diverse stakeholders, and laying a strong communications foundation in support of healthy and effective partnerships between civil society, private and public sector and political policy makers. She has lived and worked in Myanmar since 2011, working with UN agencies, the Myanmar Ministry of Social Welfare, CSOs, and both international and local NGOs with a commitment to conflict sensitive planning approaches. She has extensive experience as a trainer of leadership programs, conflict transformation methods, peacebuilding analysis and strategy, information management, and culturally sensitive localization of new concepts and processes in Myanmar. Joanne approaches conflict transformation and peacebuilding in Myanmar through a faith-based lens, while focusing skill-building in thematic areas such as adaptive leadership. Joanne has a Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and is a member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding.