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Eileen
Burke-Trent
Born
and raised in the fast changing, Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.,
Eileen Burke-Trent’s father retired as Chief of the Homicide Squad
from the Metropolitan Police Department to a West Virginia farm, where
in her adolescence she helped farm 110 acres of apple orchard, corn and
hay fields, and raised cattle and Christmas trees. Later on in life, as
an adjunct to her other business endeavors, she operated three
equestrian facilities, had 28 race and competition horses of her own,
sponsored a Riding for the Handicapped Program, and was featured in
every major equine publication in the country. After
attending Madison University in Virginia on a teaching scholarship, she
then transferred to West Virginia University to finish her degree.
During this time she worked for the Social Security Administration
investigating Black Lung Claims for disabled coal miners, and for over a
year was the Chief Research Assistant on a Department of Defense project
inside a federal prison. At
the age of 20, she interviewed every inmate in the facility—some while
in solitary confinement for violence—and over 30 years later, still
maintains it was the most enlightening and educational period of her
entire life. As a student,
Eileen also founded one of five national Anthropology honoraries; was
recognized as one of her state’s “Woman in Science”; and after the
rampant and uncontrolled building and suburban development of the
1970’s in her university area, (and
the fatal floods, groundwater contamination, and streambed disruptions
which resulted afterwards),
later helped form and served as an advisor in the West Run Watershed
Management District, created as the first actual governmental body of
its type in the nation. This
diverse background has been the foundation for over 22 years of work in
her business career, and for the communication, contract negotiation,
mediation, and stress-reduction skills in which she later trained
herself and others. Eileen
began using and teaching applied negotiation and mediation techniques as
formalized by the Harvard Negotiation Project, to hundreds of businessmen and women on both coasts. Prior to
her retirement in 1998, in addition to owning or managing several
multi-million dollar real estate companies, (including a Comstock’s
rated “Top-25” commercial real estate firm in the Sacramento area);
being a corporate relocation specialist for many large national firms; a
nationally and internationally certified appraiser, and hosting a weekly radio
show on the Business Radio Network which was sponsored by Citibank, Mrs.
Burke-Trent also helped organize the first student Negotiation and
Mediation Training organization at California State University,
Sacramento. In
2001, Eileen formed Conflict
Management Associates,
and together with other Northern California professionals, holds
training workshops in mediation and conflict
resolution. After
the Oklahoma City and Twin Towers bombings, Ms. Burke-Trent also founded
Fourteen
Angels Foundation, Inc.—a non-profit organization dedicated
to supporting the training needs of local and international K-9 Search
and Rescue Teams. In addition, her first book,
Conflict Management for Families in Crisis: A Self-Help Negotiation
Workbook is in the final stages of revision before it’s
publication in 2004. Mrs.
Burke-Trent now teaches, consults, writes and lectures in Northern
California. While their three children all attend college in Chico and
Sacramento, she and her husband Dr. Roger Trent, live with their dogs,
swans, and 200 free-range chickens on his family farm, which she is
renovating, just outside of Gridley, CA. She promotes winter dog sports,
including sled dog racing, while also working slowly
on completing her Master’s Degree at CSU-CHICO.
Eileen is also a very active participant in the League of Women
Voters of Butte County, and in “sustainable agriculture and
communities” endeavors. She can be reached by phone at (530) 846-4444,
and by e-mail at DragonsLeaFarm@yahoo.com,
or FourteenAngelsFoundation@yahoo.com
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