Jai Calloway
Jai Calloway creates safe, confidential, and inclusive spaces where attendees, volunteers, and leaders can surface concerns, navigate conflict, and fully engage in their event experience.
About Jai
Jai Calloway is a trusted conference ombuds and organizational ombudsperson known for creating safe, confidential, and inclusive spaces where attendees, volunteers, and leaders can surface concerns, navigate conflict, and fully engage in their event experience.
She currently serves as Conference Ombuds for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, since 2022, and the Society for Research and Development, since 2025, and will return as Ombuds for their 2027 Biennial Meeting.
In these roles, Jai partners with conference organizers to proactively support respectful conduct, address concerns in real time, and strengthen trust, belonging, and psychological safety across large, diverse gatherings.
Approach
With more than a decade of experience in conflict resolution and inclusion work, Jai brings a practical, people-centered approach grounded in impartiality, informality, and systems awareness.
Her work supports participants and organizers before, during, and after conferences by helping people raise concerns early, understand options, and navigate difficult dynamics constructively.
Background
Jai previously served as an Organizational Ombuds for the Cambridge Innovation Center and as a Corporate Ombuds for Halliburton Oil Services.
She is an alumna of the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and has held national leadership roles, including Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section and Chair of the International Ombuds Association’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Task Force.
