NCAMP provides cost-free mediation services to farmers throughout North Carolina. 

NCAMP is a progam of Western Carolina University and Western Carolina's College of Business.  

Founded in 1889 in the Cullowhee Valley, Western Carolina University provides an education to more than 10,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs in Cullowhee, Asheville, and online. As the westernmost institution in the University of North Carolina system, WCU attracts students from around the globe to explore the region’s vast natural diversity.

Judith Stilz Ogden received her law degree from Duquesne University School of Law, her LL.M. from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, and an M.S. in Taxation from Robert Morris College. She has spent over thirty years in higher education and is a Fulbright Scholar. She is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Business Law at Clayton State University in Georgia. In addition to teaching at Clayton State, she was the Assistant Dean for the  MBA Graduate Program, the Director of the Center for Business and International Negotiation, the Coach for the award-winning Mediation Team, and she also conducted faculty mediations.  She is a member of the Sierra Leone Program of Mediators Beyond Borders, Inc., providing training in Leadership and Conflict Resolution in that country. She is the author of over 18 articles dealing primarily with conflict resolution and employment law.