Linda Stamato is co-director of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and a member of the graduate faculty at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She teaches negotiation and conflict resolution at the Bloustein School and in other university venues, including the Institute for Women's Leadership.

Stamato is a mediator and facilitator and has been involved in a number of cases involving large-scale public policy issues as well as disputes involving parties at high management levels in several institutions. She has facilitated and mediated cases involving education policy as well as a variety of land-use issues, notably violations of clean air and clean water acts, location of affordable housing, and other site-specific matters.

Stamato has trained managers, judges, lawyers, graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and administrators; labor and management representatives in public and private sector institutions and agencies; and prepared agency and public representatives for complex negotiations.

She is the author of numerous articles on mediation and negotiation. Her latest work focuses on gender differences in negotiations. Stamato also served as a consultant to the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and as chair of the Rutgers Board of Governors.