He holds the Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law) and Bachelor of Social Work degrees from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Marty provides consultation and training to victim-offender mediation programs throughout the United States and around the world. In 2006, he toured Argentina and Chile as a restorative justice speaker, at the request of their governments. The tour was sponsored and funded by the U.S. Department of State Democracy and Human Rights International Information Program. In 2007, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to return to Argentina. 

Marty has also served as a consultant and trainer to victim-offender mediation programs in most of the United States, the Territory of Guam, in Mexico and in Central and South America. He also has been a consultant on restorative justice initiatives in Eastern Europe and Asia.

In addition to his work with the VORP Information and Resource Center (www.vorp.com), Marty has served on various restorative justice organizations. He is a former board member and Co-Chair of the Victim-Offender Mediation Association (VOMA), a non-profit, international, educational and advocacy organization that promotes Restorative Justice and supports victim-offender mediation and reconciliation programs.

He is a founding board member of Restorative Justice Resource Center, www.restorativejustice.info. He is the founder and former director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) of Clackamas County (near Portland) Oregon and previously served on the Board of the VORP of Multnomah County (in Portland).

Marty's articles have been published in numerous professional journals.

He has also presented his work on the mediation of seriously violent offenses at conferences on the treatment and prevention of crime, both nationally and internationally. His ground-breaking mediation work with drunk-driving fatality cases has been recognized internationally.

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Important Idea

Restorative Justice is community-based justice, because crime is a community problem, requiring a community solution. We will never be able to hire enough police, prosecutors, judges and prison guards to solve our crime problem for us. We can be, and must be, part of the solution.

--Marty Price

Leading Edge

Marty continues his work promoting and teaching others about restorative justice around the world. He is also consulting with various media outlets to sensitively portray restorative justice in the public setting.