<p><strong>Jonathan Alger</strong>&nbsp;is president of James Madison University (JMU) in Virginia, a public comprehensive university with 22,000 students.&nbsp; Under his leadership, JMU has developed a new vision to be &ldquo;the national model of the engaged university:&nbsp; engaged with ideas and the world,&rdquo; and a strategic plan focused on engaged learning, community engagement, and civic engagement.&nbsp;</p> <p>President Alger&rsquo;s higher education service has included positions at Rutgers University (as Senior Vice President and General Counsel), the University of Michigan, the American Association of University Professors, and the U.S. Department of Education&rsquo;s Office for Civil Rights.&nbsp; At the University of Michigan, he helped coordinate the defense in two landmark Supreme Court cases regarding diversity in admissions.&nbsp;</p> <p>President Alger currently serves on the national boards for the American Council on Education and&nbsp;Campus Compact; the American Association of State Colleges and Universities&rsquo; Council of State Representatives; and the Council of Presidents for the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.&nbsp; He was previously board chair for the National Association of College and University Attorneys, which recognized him with Life Membership and the Distinguished Service Award.&nbsp;</p> <p>A nationally recognized scholar on higher education policy and law, President Alger has given presentations at many conferences and campuses across the U.S. and abroad, and has published extensively in legal and higher education journals and periodicals.&nbsp; He is a member of the editorial board of&nbsp;<em>The Journal of College and University Law</em>, and has been a contributing editor to the treatise,&nbsp;<em>The Law of Higher Education</em>.&nbsp; He co-teaches a leadership seminar in the JMU Honors College and has previously taught courses in law, higher education and public policy at the undergraduate and graduate levels.</p> <p>President Alger graduated with High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College as a political science major, and with Honors from Harvard Law School.</p>

<div align=justify><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Laurie Barnes: </span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">As the Deputy General Counsel, Laurie Barnes oversees litigation, labor and employment, student affairs, and regulatory matters for USC, including the university and its health system.&nbsp; Ms. Barnes also directs legal operations, assists in the overall management of the Office of the General Counsel, and leads high-profile special projects.&nbsp; In her role, Ms. Barnes provides strategic counsel to university leadership to help USC navigate significant legal challenges while promoting the university&#39;s commitment to ethics and professionalism.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Prior to joining USC, Ms. Barnes served for over nine years in the legal department of AT&amp;T where she focused on complex litigation management and strategy, employment advice and counsel, and appeals across all of AT&amp;T&#39;s markets and entities.&nbsp; There, she navigated a rapidly changing business, managing major special projects including corporate reorganizations, and provided legal and strategic counsel on a range of business and regulatory matters.&nbsp; Ms. Barnes also worked in private practice for Sheppard Mullin and Seyfarth Shaw in the Labor and Employment departments.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Barnes received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University,&nbsp;cum laude, and her J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law.&nbsp; Outside of her work for USC, Ms. Barnes participates in&nbsp;pro bono&nbsp;work with the Alliance for Children&#39;s Rights assisting children in foster care with Special Education rights.&nbsp; She is a member of the California State Bar, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and the Association of Corporate Counsel.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"></span> </div>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"><span style="font-size:9.00pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Courtney Bullard</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"> has decades of experience representing institutions and organizations in matters involving sexual misconduct, including 8 years as a University system attorney. Since starting ICS in September of 2016, Ms. Bullard has become a thought leader on institutional compliance in addressing instances of sexual misconduct, bullying and hazing, speaking nationally at conferences and events. She provides legal and consulting services for public and private higher education institutions and K-12, serves as an external investigator in to allegations of sexual misconduct, most notably in the Ooltewah basketball case, and provides expert witness testimony on matters dealing with institutional response to allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and hazing in litigation. Courtney is the host of The Law &amp; Higher Ed Podcast and is nationally recognized for her contributions to news media, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and VICE news on HBO.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"><span style="font-size:9.00pt;">Courtney is a member of NACUA and Workplace Investigations Group and is a Rule 31 Mediator. </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"><span style="font-size:9.00pt;">In 2018 Courtney received the prestigious recognition of Lawyer of Distinction in Higher Education Law.</span> </span></div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Traevena Byrd</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary for American University. She serves as a member of the President&#39;s cabinet and as chief legal advisor to the university&#39;s executive officers and board. In the role of General Counsel, she coordinates all legal services for the university and manages the team of lawyers and administrative professionals who serve in the Office of General Counsel. &nbsp;As Secretary to the Board of Trustees, she oversees board operations, maintains meeting minutes, and serves as the custodian of board records and the corporate seal. She has previously worked as a Title IX coordinator, EEO investigator, and associate general counsel at Ithaca College in New York; Vice President and General Counsel at Towson University in Maryland; and as an adjunct faculty member teaching civil rights and social justice. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Traevena currently serves on the accreditation commission for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). &nbsp;Traevena serves as Secretary on the Board of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) where she previously served as a Member-at-Large from 2014-2017; she also serves as Chair of the NACUA Committee on Board Operations. She is a frequent presenter on the subject of free speech and student protest, and has been a speaker for several higher education associations, including the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA), the American Council on Education (ACE), the Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education (NASPA), the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Traevena is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts in African American World Studies with honors and her law degree.</span> </div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Sherri Ann Charleston </span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">serves as the first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) at Harvard University. She is one of the nation&#8217;s leading experts in diversity and higher education, and assumed her role in August 2020.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Charleston is a historian trained in U.S. history with a focus on race, women, gender, citizenship, and the law, and an attorney with a specialization in constitutional and employment law. Most recently, she served as the Assistant Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Affirmative Action Officer at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison. She was responsible for evaluating progress toward the goals of a campus-wide strategic diversity plan. During her leadership, she also oversaw the Office of Employee Disability Resources and undergraduate scholarship programs focused on recruiting and retaining students from historically underrepresented communities.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">As an academician and administrator, she has expertise in affirmative action, Title IX, and Americans with Disability Act enforcement and compliance. Her focus is on translating diversity and inclusion research into practice for students, staff, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and faculty of color. She also held faculty affiliations with the Departments of Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies, teaching courses on women, inequality, and policy analysis at UW-Madison. In 2019, Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine named her one of the &#8220;Top 35 Women in Higher Education.&#8221;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Charleston received a B.A. from Columbia University in history and African American studies, a M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan, and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&#8220;My approach to the work is very much grounded in my academic interests in history and the law, and in thinking about how we&#8217;ve evolved, and how we haven&#8217;t evolved, around questions of race and gender, and it comes from a deep passion toward effecting sustainable organizational change, and creating structures that outlast all of us, so that we can actually make progress. I fundamentally believe that many of the challenges that we face in higher education relative to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging have answers rooted in applied research. We must work together in the field to find them.&#8221;</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">With over 20 years of experience in volunteer and program management, community outreach, and project development cultivated at some of Baltimore&#39;s most challenging housing, education, and healthcare nonprofits, </span><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Jessica Drake</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> has made an immediate impact on those she serves. As Vice President at Strategic Applications International (SAI), Mrs. Drake provided facilitation and support services for the President&#39;s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. She has regularly received and managed grants from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) at the Department of Justice, include the recent Law Enforcement Officers Mental Health and Wellness Case Studies that were presented to Congress during the 2019 legislative session and again with a focus on suicide prevention in 2020. An expert in nationally-recognized best practices in OSW and Community Policing, Mrs. Drake has hosted a series of COPS forums titled, Emerging Issues in Policing, to address the challenges and tout the successes of police, city officials, and the communities they all are called to serve. Ms. Drake serves on the Baltimore Consent Decree Monitoring Team and has been involved in policing department assessments in campuses and cities across the country.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Previously, Mrs. Drake was Director of Community Outreach &amp; Volunteerism at the Living Classrooms Foundation. She was the School &amp; Youth Coordinator for the Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society of Maryland, and as the Advocacy and Youth Engagement Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake. As a volunteer, she regularly leads groups to do direct service in refugee camps in sub-Saharan Africa for the nonprofit, Servant Forge.</span> </div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Erika Geetter</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Board for Boston University. &nbsp;As General Counsel, she provides legal advice and counsel to the University&#39;s Board of Trustees, President, and senior administration on a wide variety of matters involving the University. &nbsp;She is also responsible for the supervision of all legal matters, including litigation, handled by her office and by outside counsel, and for oversight of the University&#39;s Office of Compliance Services. As Board </span><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Secretary, she oversees the Office of the Trustees. </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Geetter&#39;s principal areas of practice are faculty and staff employment, benefits, student affairs, academic affairs, and non-profit governance. &nbsp;Ms. Geetter joined Boston University&#39;s Office of the General Counsel in 1996 and served as Deputy General Counsel from 2011 through 2013, when she became Vice President and General Counsel. &nbsp;</span><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">In September 2018, she was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees. </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Geetter came to Boston University after several years as a lawyer with the Metropolitan Legal Department in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that time, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Savannah, Georgia, and represented indigent clients as a lawyer with Legal Services of Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;Ms. Geetter graduated in 1985 summa cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and received her J.D. with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1989, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. </span></div>

<div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Heidi Gertner</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is a partner at Hogan Lovells in their drug regulatory group based in the Washington DC office. &nbsp;Heidi began her professional career with a focus on bioethics and law, completing two post-doctoral bioethics fellowships-at the Cleveland Clinic and at the National Institutes of Health. &nbsp;Heidi then worked at the FDA&#39;s Office of Chief Counsel for 13 years as a counselor on the &#8220;drugs team.&#8221; &nbsp;Her main clients were FDA&#39;s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and the Commissioner&#39;s Office. &nbsp;&nbsp;At Hogan Lovells Heidi focuses on drug advertising and promotion, combination products, drug safety, clinical trials and human subject protection, IND and NDA related issues, Rx-OTC switches, and OTC drug regulation. &nbsp;She is also an adjunct professor at American University&#39;s Washington College of Law. &nbsp;There she has taught Health Law: Bioethics for 15 years.</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div>

<p>Becca Gose serves as Vice President and General Counsel for Oregon State University (OSU). As Chief Legal Officer, she leads the Office of the General Counsel, consisting of a team of attorneys focused on strategic and preventive advising, finding innovative solutions, and fostering collaborative problem-solving. Reporting directly to the President, Becca is a member of the University Cabinet and advises the Board of Trustees, President, Provost, and various levels of university leadership.</p><p>Becca has served OSU since 2010, as Assistant and then Associate General Counsel, and began her role as Chief Legal Officer in 2015. Prior to joining OSU, she was an associate litigation attorney in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles and Olson, where a portion of her practice was dedicated to representing higher education institutions. She received her JD from the University of California at Berkeley and her BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.</p><p>Becca actively contributes to the higher-education legal community through her involvement in NACUA and is currently serving on the Board of Directors, chairs the Committee on Strategic Planning, and leads the LGBTQ+ Affinity Group. Her prior engagements include participation on the Annual Conference Planning Committee, Committee on Legal Education, General Counsel Institute Planning Committee, and the NACUA Membership and New Members Committee. She has also been a speaker or a discussion leader at multiple NACUA conferences and workshops. Additionally, she recently completed a 6-year term on the Board of Trustees for the Corvallis Public Schools Foundation, where she served as Chair, Immediate Past Chair, and Secretary.</p>

<div align=justify><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">John Graff</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">is an attorney at Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP in Boston, Massachusetts where he serves as litigation counsel to colleges and universities and advises them on a number of areas unique to higher education, including regulatory compliance, institutional policies and handbooks, campus law enforcement and public safety operations, student discipline, student disability accommodations, on-campus housing, and complex technology contracts. From December 2009 through August 2010, </span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">he</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> served as interim associate general counsel at Emerson College in Boston. </span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Mr.Graff</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is currently serving in his second year as a member of the Editorial Board of the J</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">ournal of College and University Law</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> and is a member of the College and University Section of the Boston Bar Association. </span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Mr. Graff</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> also has an active business litigation practice representing companies in employment and other commercial disputes. Prior to practicing law, </span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">he</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> received commendations and medals for his service as a police officer, and he subsequently served as a supervisor in Boston University&#39;s student discipline office where he adjudicated over 1,000 non-academic student discipline cases.</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> &nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

<p>Dr. Sylvia Gray has served in the arena of higher education for over a decade.&nbsp;Gray&#39;s experience includes the following positions:</p> <ul> <li>Director of operations for an all girls non-profit agency</li> <li>A prior athletic trainer in sports medicine for several male dominated sports</li> <li>A director of university housing for students</li> <li>A director of university housing for multicultural families</li> <li>A senior conduct hearing officer</li> <li>A coordinator of a women&#39;s center</li> <li>A coordinator of multicultural affairs</li> <li>A leadership facilitator</li> <li>A Greek life/risk management advisor</li> <li>And an adjunct professor of Higher Education Administration.</li> <li>She now serves as the Title IX Coordinator at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.</li> </ul> <p>Gray&#39;s experience is rooted in educating, training, storytelling, and engaging with a variety of populations. Gray&rsquo;s role as Sewanee&rsquo;s Title IX Coordinator includes overseeing compliance efforts and advising the executive offices, faculty, staff, students, clergy, and the broader Sewanee community on issues as it pertains to Title IX.</p>

<div><b><span style="color:#1E1E1E;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Javier Guzman</span></b><span style="color:#1E1E1E;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is Deputy General Counsel at Harvard University, where he advises clients on a wide range of legal issues, including civil rights, foreign influence matters, federal regulatory initiatives, sponsored research and grant compliance, and litigation and internal investigations. Prior to joining Harvard, he was the founding Legal Director of Democracy Forward Foundation, a public interest law firm created in 2017 to represent non-profit organizations and local governments in regulatory and constitutional litigation. Before then, he served in the U.S. Department of Justice, receiving numerous commendations and awards for his work. He started in the Civil Rights Division, as a trial attorney and then deputy chief, litigating and supervising the Department&#39;s enforcement work in the area of equal educational opportunities in the K-12 and university settings. He then served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, litigating civil trials and appeals on behalf of the United States and a wide range of federal agencies. In his final position in the Department, he served as Deputy Associate Attorney General, overseeing and advising senior government officials on sensitive and complex matters arising in the areas of civil rights, environmental law, and federal programs. Prior to joining DOJ, he worked at Crowell &amp; Moring LLP, focusing on complex civil litigation and developing a pro bono practice in educational access issues. He received his B.S. in Economics from Louisiana State University and his J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Moot Court Board.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Selected to begin in April 2011 as the Director of Police for the University of Texas System, Michael J. Heidingsfield is responsible for the leadership and operation of the University of Texas System Police (UTSP), composed of 635 sworn officers and 922 civilian staff assigned at 15 University of Texas System campuses across the State of Texas. &nbsp;He oversees each of the 13 university police departments and the respective Chiefs of Police as well as the University of Texas System Police Academy. &nbsp;The UTSP is a state law enforcement agency with primary jurisdiction in the 68 Texas counties where the University of Texas System has real property and delivers full law enforcement services to a population of 330,000 students, faculty and staff plus thousands of visitors daily. &nbsp;Functions include a tactical response team, major crimes unit, an inspections staff, criminal intelligence, a seat at the Texas Fusion Center, internal affairs, counter terrorism, administrative investigations as well as the full array of traditional police services in the field &nbsp;including patrol, canine, criminal investigations, motors and bicycle units. &nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">The University of Texas System Police, a single police agency, is the third largest state law enforcement agency in the State of Texas. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Prior to being appointed as Director of Police, he served as the Senior Assistant Sergeant at Arms for Police Operations and Homeland Security for the United States Senate and held that position from 2008 to 2011. In that capacity he directly oversaw the Senate&#8217;s preparations for security of its members, the protection of the Senate both as a complex of facilities and as an institution, the counter-terrorism measures employed to ensure enduring constitutional government and the overarching law enforcement and security measures necessary to guarantee public safety, continuity of operations and enduring constitutional government. &nbsp;He served as a senior participant and advisor for such National Special Security Events as the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. &nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Preceding his Senate appointment, Director Heidingsfield served for eight years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to his move to Memphis, Director Heidingsfield served for eight years as the Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety for the City of Scottsdale, Arizona. &nbsp;His law enforcement service in Arizona and Tennessee was preceded by a 13 year tenure at the Arlington (TX) Police Department, leaving there as the senior deputy police chief after having been selected through a nationwide recruitment to lead the Scottsdale Police Department. &nbsp;At the time of his retirement from the City of Scottsdale, he was accorded the title of Chief of Police Emeritus. &nbsp;Director Heidingsfield began his law enforcement career with the University of Texas System Police from 1973-1975. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Following his graduation from college, Director Heidingsfield served as an active duty Air Force officer at the conclusion of the Vietnam War and subsequently retired in 2004 as a full colonel in the Air Force Reserve assigned to the Security Forces Directorate at the Pentagon. &nbsp;He was called to active duty in the wake of the attacks of 9/11 and served as a team chief in the Air Force Crisis Action Center in the Pentagon. &nbsp;He also served as an advisory team member at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. &nbsp;His Air Force career took him to Europe, Central America, East Asia and the Persian Gulf.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">He received his BS degree in Criminology from Florida State University in 1973 and his MA degree in Liberal Arts from Texas Christian University in 1990. &nbsp;While at Florida State University, Director Heidingsfield was an Air Force scholarship recipient and a distinguished graduate of the ROTC commissioning program. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">He is a published author and speaker in the fields of criminal justice policy, policing, leadership and ethics, and has presented before the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Major City Police Chiefs Association, Police Executive Research Forum, US Navy Post Graduate School and at Oxford University, England. &nbsp;Director Heidingsfield has provided advice to the Israeli National Police on the issue of violence de-escalation, to the Bermuda Police Service on international law enforcement accreditation and has served as a trainer for the Ministry of Public Security in Costa Rica. &nbsp;He received three gubernatorial appointments for criminal justice posts in the State of Arizona and served as a subject matter expert for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, on the security of Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees. &nbsp;He also served as an instructor on leadership for the Indonesian National Police executive corps and for a 20 year period was an assessor and team leader for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">While on a 13 month leave of absence from the Crime Commission from 2004-2005, Director Heidingsfield served in Baghdad as the Contingent Commander for the US Department of State&#8217;s Police Advisory Mission in Iraq. &nbsp;His role was leading the effort to retrain and reconstitute the Iraqi Police Service, overseeing a staff of 1000 in doing so and traveling throughout Iraq. &nbsp;He survived five insurgent attacks during that mission. &nbsp;He was also selected in 2007 to serve as a member of the Congressionally-mandated Independent Commission on the Iraqi Security Forces, again traveling to Iraq. &nbsp;More recently, he served as senior police advisor and subject matter expert to the President&#8217;s Special Envoy to the Middle East for Regional Security. &nbsp;Both his Iraq Commission and Middle East Special Envoy work was done at the request of and under the leadership of past National Security Advisor, General James Jones. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Director Heidingsfield is a graduate of the Senior Management Institute for Police, generally considered the most advanced police executive training in the country with faculty drawn primarily from the Harvard University Schools of Business and Government. Finally, he served for three years on the Board of Trustees for the Center for American and International Law. </span></div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Robin H. Holmes-Sullivan</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students (VPSL) at Lewis and Clark College. &nbsp;As the senior student affairs officer for the campus, her responsibilities include enhancing and transforming the student experience at the College, ensuring that the student voice and student needs are considered in decision making, and overseeing the departments and programs of Campus Living, Career Services, Case Management, Clubs and Organizations, College Outdoors, Commencement, Counseling Service, Health Promotion and Wellness, Health Services, Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement, International Students and Scholars, Leadership and Service, New Student Orientation, Physical Education and Athletics, Club Sports, Spiritual Life, Student Activities, Student Rights and Responsibilities, and Student Support Services. &nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Before joining Lewis and Clark College, she was at the University of California (UC) and held the role as UC&#39;s systemwide Vice President for Student Affairs, where she provided strategic leadership in support of the 10 UC campuses in the development and implementation of systemwide policy and practice in the areas of undergraduate admissions, student financial support and student life and ensured a world-class student experience that was transformative, and rested on the pillars of access, affordability and student engagement.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Prior to serving at the University of California, she served as Vice President for Student Life at the University of Oregon (UO), serving 9 of her 25-year Oregon career as the Senior Student Affairs Officer for the campus. &nbsp;At UO, she led efforts in support of students&#39; academic success including the construction of new residence halls, a new student union, recreation center and health/counseling center additions. &nbsp;She also provided leadership and policy development in the areas of sexual assault/sexual violence prevention, campus climate, co-curricular learning opportunities, suicide prevention, wellness initiatives and cultural competency.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Holmes-Sullivan is a licensed clinical psychologist and maintained a clinical practice for 23 years. &nbsp;She consults on issues of diversity, multicultural organizational development for higher education institutions and private corporations as well as leadership development and mental health and wellness issues. &nbsp;She has taught classes and workshops on multiculturalism, multicultural competence in therapy, cross-cultural dynamics in conflict mediation as well as identity formation and development. &nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Holmes-Sullivan holds a Ph.D. and master&#39;s degree from the California School of Professional Psychology and received her master&#39;s and bachelor&#39;s degrees from California State University, Fullerton.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"></span></div>

<div><b><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Sandhya Iyer</span></b><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> joined Dartmouth in July 2017, bringing extensive legal expertise in higher education to Dartmouth. She joined Oberlin as general counsel in 2008, and before that was chief attorney for the U.S. Department of Education Cleveland Office for Civil Rights. There, she managed teams investigating federal civil rights violations by educational institutions.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Iyer earned a B.S. summa cum laude in chemistry and women&#39;s studies and a J.D. from Yale, before gaining experience in litigation at the firm Ropes &amp; Gray in Boston, and clerking for the Honorable Sidney Thomas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">In 1998 she became policy counsel for the National Partnership for Women and Families (formerly the Women&#39;s Legal Defense Fund) and worked to improve family and medical leave policies at the state and federal level. &nbsp;She also co-authored an amicus curiae brief for a U.S. Supreme Court case recognizing a Title IX cause of action for peer sexual harassment.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">In 2000, she joined the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division&#39;s special litigation section, ultimately serving as special counsel there. She received five performance awards while there and at the Department of Education, which she joined in 2005. At the Justice Department, she also received a special achievement award and a special commendation for outstanding service. </span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Iyer has served on the board of directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and currently serves on the board of the Yale Law Journal. </span></div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Peter Jarvis</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is a partner in Holland &amp; Knight&#39;s Portland office, where he practices primarily in the area of attorney professional responsibility and risk management. Mr. Jarvis advises lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments and government legal departments about the law governing lawyers. This includes, but is not limited to, matters relating to conflicts of interest, duties of confidentiality, other legal or professional ethics issues, advice on the avoidance of civil or criminal liability, law firm breakups, and questions relating to law firm or legal department structure and operation. Mr. Jarvis also serves as an expert witness and is an avid lecturer for public and private/in-house continuing legal education seminars. &nbsp;He is licensed to practice in California, New York, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. </span></span></div>

<div><b><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Janell Johnson</span></b><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;"> joined NACUA as Assistant Director of Legal Resources in March of 2019.&nbsp; She manages NACUA&#8217;s online legal resources as well as those provided on the Higher Education Compliance Alliance website. She also develops and manages NACUA&#8217;s online courses and selected other NACUA educational programming, including CLE workshops and webinars.&nbsp; Additionally, Janell assists in collaborative programming efforts between NACUA and other higher education associations and on outreach to governmental agencies regarding issues of interest to NACUA members.</span></div> <p><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Prior to joining NACUA, Janell was an associate in the higher education practice of Powers, Pyles, Sutter, &amp; Verville in Washington, D.C. where she represented and advised various higher education institutions and investors regarding compliance with federal and state laws and accreditation agency standards.&nbsp; Prior to Powers, Janell taught Advanced Placement Literature and English for Prince George&#8217;s County Public Schools in Maryland.&nbsp; Janell graduated&nbsp;</span><i><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">summa cum laude&nbsp;</span></i><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">from Howard University where she earned a B.A. in English.&nbsp; She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and is admitted to the bar in Maryland and Washington, D.C.</span></p>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Monica H. Khetarpal is a Principal in the Chicago, Illinois, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She is the Co-Chair of Jackson Lewis&#8217; Higher Education Industry Group. She is responsible for coordinating the firm&#8217;s representation of both public and private colleges and universities across the country.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">In her role as Co-Chair, Ms. Khetarpal monitors legal developments that affect higher education, ensures that Jackson Lewis recruits and trains attorneys who are experts in those areas, and organizes continuing legal education opportunities for the firm&#8217;s higher education clients.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Khetarpal has also personally represented higher education institutions throughout her career. She understands the culture of colleges and universities, and the unique challenges they face. She has experience in a wide variety of matters, including defending denial of tenure cases, a variety of civil rights matters, case brought by students, crisis management, providing advice and counsel regarding high profile faculty and student matters, revising strategic policies and procedures, and conducting internal investigations, climate surveys, and training. Ms. Khetarpal is currently defending numerous universities in tuition and fee class action matters. She also has expertise in managing the student, faculty and media issues unique to the higher education setting. Ms. Khetarpal frequently speaks on hot topics in higher education law, and she is a member of NACUA.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Khetarpal is also an experienced employment litigator. Her experience includes cases involving claims for discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, FMLA violations, disability discrimination and requests for accommodation in both single plaintiff and class action matters. She regularly handles matters at all levels, from administrative agencies to appeals in both state and federal courts. She was recently first chair for a three-week jury trial in which she defended a university client against claims brought by a professor after he was denied tenure. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Khetarpal also devotes a significant amount of time to diversity, equity and inclusion counseling. In 2020 she earned a Certificate in Diversity &amp; Inclusion from Cornell University to support this work. She has experience conducting climate surveys, investigations, and diversity assessments, and provides advice and counsel in a variety of matters related to DEI. She regularly provides DEI training in unconscious bias, inclusion, and equity to faculty and staff at all levels of organizations. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">She also practices what she preaches, and devotes significant time to encouraging diversity within the legal profession. She is a Co-Chair of Jackson Lewis&#39; Asian American Resource Group and D&amp;I Liaison for the firm&#8217;s Chicago office. She has also served on the Board of the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago as well as SABA&#8217;s Foundation, and on the Diversity Scholarship Foundation&#39;s Unity Dinner planning committee. She was the 2018 recipient of the Advocate for Diversity Award from Chicago&#8217;s Diversity Scholarship Foundation. Monica also frequently speaks on topics related to women in the law and successful work-life balance, and founded the Chicago chapter of the firm&#8217;s Practicing and Parenting group to support attorneys who balance their legal practice with raising children. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Prior to joining Jackson Lewis ten years ago, she worked at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &amp; Feld in Washington D.C. for nearly two years, and at Heyl Royster Volker &amp; Allen in Urbana, Illinois for over three years. &nbsp;Monica has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2010, and was named awarded the 40 Under 40 Award by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in 2019. &nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"></span></div>

<p><span style="color:black">Maya Kobersy&#39;s primary practice areas include affirmative action and diversity, election law, privacy, research and research misconduct, University logo issues, and in-state tuition guidelines for students. Maya is the OGC liaison to the Institutional Review Board-Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences. She also serves on a number of University committees and is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, where she currently serves as vice chair for the NACUANotes Editorial Board. She has presented at University, state, and national conferences on issues relating to diversity, human subjects research, election law, Title IX, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and employment compensation, among other topics.</span></p><p><span style="color:black">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color:black">Prior to joining the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel in 2005, Maya worked in the Education Group of Hogan &amp; Hartson, L.L.P. (now Hogan Lovells), where she advised clients on numerous K-12, higher education, and civil rights issues. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review and a finalist and oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. In recognition of her work to help ensure that Americans with limited English proficiency have meaningful access to federal and federally funded programs, Maya received the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund&#39;s Excellence in the Legal Profession Award in 2002 and the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium&#39;s Distinguished Service Award in 2003.</span></p>

<p><span style="color:black">Tim Lynch, a NACUA member since 2013, is currently Vice President and General Counsel of the University of Michigan.&nbsp; &nbsp;Before joining the University of Michigan as Vice President and General Counsel, his varied career includes serving as Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Energy; adjunct professor at UVA Law and Georgetown Law; Assistant U.S. Attorney; private practice at Shea &amp; Gardner; and law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Cornelia Kennedy.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color:black">Tim served on the NACUA Board of Directors </span>(Class of FY 2016-2019) and as Vice Chair of the Committee on Finance and Audit and Chair of the Committee&rsquo;s Subcommittee on Audit, positions he also held in FY 2016-17.&nbsp; In the past, he has served on the NACUA Committee on Legal Education and the Advisory Group on the Business of Higher Education. He has attended numerous NACUA programs and served as a moderator for a CLE workshop session.&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color:black">Tim earned his B.A. in 1990 from the University of Rochester and his J.D. in 1995 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Editor in Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. &nbsp;</span></p>

<div align=justify><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Michael Gerard Mason </span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">joined the staff of the Office of African-American Affairs in the Spring of 2015. He serves there as an Associate Dean and as the Director of the Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center. Prior to joining the OAAA staff full-time, Dr. Mason held several positions at the University. In 2008, Dr. Mason joined the faculty of the Counselor Education department in the Curry School of Education as an Assistant Professor. In 2010, he transitioned to a Clinical position, Multicultural Specialist, in the Elson Student Health Counseling and Psychological Services Department where he served as a staff psychotherapist and liaison to OAAA. In this capacity, he served as the Director of Project RISE, a peer counseling project created &#34;for Black students by Black students.&#34; Dr. Mason continues to teach one to two courses through the Curry School: (1) EDHS 3895: Peer Counseling Theory and Technique and/or (2) EDHS 5241: Peer Support Program Research, Design, and Evaluation.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Mason earned a BS in Biology from Dillard University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in New Orleans; an M.Ed in Community and School Counseling from the University of New Orleans, and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Virginia. His dissertation, &#8220;DuBois&#39;s Double Consciousness: Unifying the Singular Experiences of Black doctoral students in Predominantly White Institutions&#8221; has served as an important focal point of his research, practice, and training relative to the Black student experience in higher education.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"></span> </div>

<p><strong>Marc D. Mootchnik</strong>&nbsp;is Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Counsel - Human Resources for California State University. Mr. Mootchnik has represented several California State University campuses. &nbsp;He also leads the team of CSU lawyers responsible for advising the system on labor and other employment matters, including wage and hour, collective bargaining, benefits programs and other policies. &nbsp;In addition to the gamut of employment matters, he advises his campus clients on matters ranging from First Amendment, real property issues, contract negotiations, and also oversees litigation. &nbsp;Mr. Mootchnik has been practicing for over 29 years, obtaining his B.A. from Long Beach State University and his J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<div><b><span style="color:black;font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:12.00pt;">Allison B. Newhart</span></b><span style="color:black;font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;is Vice Chancellor and General Counsel for North Carolina State University, leading a team of attorneys providing legal advice to the university on matters ranging from compliance and ethics to business contracts and employment law.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:12.00pt;">She previously served as Associate General Counsel at The Pennsylvania State University, where she focused her practice on labor and employment matters, student affairs, litigation, and Title IX and Clery Act compliance. Prior to that Allison was in private practice at Saul Ewing, LLP, in Philadelphia, where she concentrated her practice in higher education law, commercial litigation and labor and employment matters.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:12.00pt;">Allison currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). She is currently Vice Chair of the Committee on Legal Education, and served as Chair of the Planning Group for NACUA&#39;s 2019 Compliance Workshop and on several other NACUA committees. She has also served on the boards of various nonprofit organizations. She is a frequent speaker at regional and national higher education conferences and has authored papers and other publications relating to higher education legal issues.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:12.00pt;">Allison received her B.A., cum laude, from Lehigh University. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Villanova University School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif.</span></div> <div><span style="color:black;font-family:'Open Sans';font-size:12.00pt;"></span></div>

<div align=justify><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">John W. Patton</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">, Jr., is the General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. In this role John is responsible for navigating CDU through all aspects of the University&#39;s business and endeavors from a legal perspective. John has well over thirty-five years of experience in all aspects of civil litigation, with jury and court trials and appellate work in both state and federal courts throughout California. &nbsp;John&#39;s practice has focused on employment disputes, commercial business litigation, real estate disputes, and personal injury. &nbsp;He has represented and counseled Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized and small businesses and individuals. &nbsp;He is a 1975 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, and a 1979 graduate of Howard University School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude and first in his class.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">In 1997, John was elected as the first African American president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association in Beverly Hills, California. &nbsp;He is a former member of the State Bar of California Commission of Judicial Nominees Evaluation, the Business Law Section, and the Committee on Administration of Justice; a former member of the American Bar Association Metropolitan Bar Caucus; and a former member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">John is the past Chair and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Conference of California Bar Associations (CCBA), a powerful voice of the lawyers of California. &nbsp;Among other activities and services to California lawyers and the public, CCBA provides a forum and voice for all local, minority, statewide and specialty bar associations in California to consider, debate and propose, and implement changes in California laws.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">An ordained Elder, John has been an active member of West Angeles Church of God in Christ (a thriving church of over 25,000 members pastored by Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr., Presiding Bishop of the Church of God In Christ, Inc., the nation&#39;s largest Pentecostal denomination) for well over thirty years, where he has served as a member of the West Angeles Board of Trustees. &nbsp;John is deeply involved in the Perfecting Believers/Discipleship Ministry at West Angeles, and he served on the Board of Directors of Save Africa&#39;s Children, a worldwide outreach ministry deeply involved in ministry to orphans in sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora victimized by the HIV/aids pandemic. &nbsp;Also, John has served on the Board of Directors of the West Angeles Community Development Corporation.</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">John is legal counsel to the First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Southern California, Church of God in Christ, a leading jurisdiction of the Church of God In Christ, Inc., comprised of over 250 churches. </span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">A native of Cleveland, Ohio, John&#39;s hobbies include traveling, bicycling and music. &nbsp;He is happily married to Evangelist Missionary Dawn Harris Patton, the proud father of four beautiful children, John III, Stephen, Paige, and Bradley, and stepfather of Dawn&#39;s beautiful daughter, Darrah. </span></div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Rachel</span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Rolf</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> joined Trinity University as Trinity&#39;s inaugural General Counsel in 2018.&nbsp; Prior to joining Trinity, she worked in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Kansas, where she served as Assistant, Associate, and Interim General Counsel.&nbsp; She has also worked in the private practice of law at </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">McAnany</span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">, Van Cleave, Phillips in the Kansas City area. Ms. </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Rolf</span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> has significant experience handling a wide range of legal matters in higher education, delivers training regionally and nationally on topics relating to education law, and has served as an instructor with the National Center for Campus Public Safety for the Trauma Informed Sexual Assault Investigation and Adjudication program.&nbsp; She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with highest distinction from Creighton University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas, where she also served on the Kansas Law Review.&nbsp; Ms. </span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Rolf</span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is admitted to the bar in Texas, Kansas, and Missouri.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"></span> &nbsp;</div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Debbie Russell</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> has spent over 40 years as an insurance broker with several large, national insurance brokerage firms and currently works for Gallagher, her home for the last 21 years. During this time, she has developed a niche in the higher education sector, providing insurance brokerage and risk consulting services to a wide variety of colleges and universities. Her clients have ranged from small, private, liberal arts colleges to large, research-based institutions. In her role as their insurance broker, Debbie has been responsible for identifying risks, designing and marketing insurance programs and responding to insurance and risk management challenges and opportunities as they arise. Those challenges have never been greater than the COVID-19 challenges facing us today. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">In addition to serving clients, Debbie is a leader in Gallagher&#39;s national Higher Education Practice and manages the Higher Education Team in Southern California. In these roles, she oversees Gallagher&#39;s higher education quality initiatives, works with industry thought leaders in product design and development and serves as a market liaison with the major insurance carriers serving the higher education sector. She also facilitates quarterly roundtable meetings for higher education risk managers to address relevant topics of interest and concern. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Debbie received her B.A. from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. She is a long-standing member of URMIA and actively serves on United Educators&#39; Broker Advisory Committee and WACUBO&#39;s Industry Alliance Council.</span></div>

<p><strong>Sonya Sanchez </strong>is a member of the Education Affairs and Governance Practice. She routinely advise on UC system-wide policies and procedures for addressing sexual misconduct in the student, faculty, staff, and clinical care contexts and is a Key advisor to highest levels of UC leadership on sexual misconduct, race discrimination, and undocumented students. In addition, Sonya advises senior leaders concerning regulatory and litigation risk assessment, crisis management, investigations and policy development in the sexual misconduct, race discrimination and international and undocumented student arenas.</p><p>Sonya also served as a key team member in the Regents of the Univ. of Cal., et al. v. U.S. Dep&rsquo;t of Homeland Sec., et al. litigation at the federal district, appellate and U.S. Supreme Court levels.</p>

<div class="yiv0454304469msonormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;"></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Kathleen Curry Santora served as&nbsp;President &amp; Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) for more than 20 years and retired in September of 2021.&nbsp;Before coming to NACUA, she was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). She previously served in various positions at Georgetown University - as Secretary of the University, Assistant to the President for External Relations, and Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff for the President&#39;s Office. For nearly ten years prior to that, Kathleen worked for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) in various senior-level positions where she handled tax policy and other legislative issues, state relations with state associations of independent colleges and universities, and management of association internal operations. She also served as the first Director for Public Policy and External Relations at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB).&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="yiv0454304469msonormal"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Kathleen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Scranton and a Juris Doctor from the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="yiv0454304469msonormal"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Kathleen served&nbsp;on the board of the American Council on Education (ACE) and&nbsp;as chair of the steering committee for the Washington Higher Education Secretariat (WHES). She previously served on the boards of the University of Scranton;&nbsp;Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE); National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA); EDUCAUSE (the association for IT professionals); Association Mutual Health Insurance Company (AMHIC); and Academic Search; as a member of the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA) Steering Committee, and as a member of the Western New England College (now University) board</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;">.</span></span></span></div>

<p><strong>Steve Sencer</strong>&nbsp;served, until September 2022,&nbsp;as Emory University&rsquo;s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, leading a team of professionals responsible providing representation to the University and affiliated entities, including Emory Healthcare and The Carter Center. &nbsp;As a member of the president&rsquo;s leadership team, Sencer advised university and healthcare leadership on the range of issues affecting a research university with an academic medical center.&nbsp; Sencer currently is Counsel at Ropes &amp; Gray, LLP.</p><p>Sencer is the past chair of the board of NACUA, served&nbsp;on the General Counsel Steering Committee of the AAU and the Legal Services Panel of NAICU, and is a former member of the United Educators Legal Advisory Board. &nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sencer helped create Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory, LLC, and chairs the board of Emory Innovations, Inc., DRIVE&rsquo;s parent company. &nbsp;He has lectured at Emory and elsewhere on legal issues relating to drug development and global health, co-founded the Emory-South Africa Drug Discovery Training Program and GAP BioSciences, and is a Board Advisor to Advancing Healthcare Innovation in Africa (AHIA).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Prior to joining Emory, Sencer practiced law at Williams &amp; Connolly in Washington, DC, and King &amp; Spalding in Atlanta, GA, and served as an Assistant DA in DeKalb County, GA. &nbsp;After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Michigan Law Review, Sencer clerked for Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. &nbsp;Sencer received a BA with Honors from Wesleyan University.</p>

<p><strong>Jody Shipper</strong>&nbsp;is a Managing Director of Grand River Solutions. Jody has more than 25 years of experience in Title IX, equity and diversity, and related fields. She is known for her insight into best-in-class programming, policies, and community outreach aimed at addressing sexual misconduct on campus. She lectures extensively at universities and conferences throughout the U.S. on Title IX, VAWA, harassment, and implementation of best and emerging practices. Jody also co-founded Project IX in 2014, a nonprofit focused on Title IX-related services to schools with a mission to provide effective solutions for preventing and responding to sexual violence.</p><p>Jody previously served as the systemwide director for Title IX/VAWA/Clery compliance for the University of California system. Prior to that, she served for 11 years as executive director of the Office of Equity and Diversity at a large research university where she also held the post of chief Title IX administrator. In these roles, she provided direct, hands-on experience in the fields of Title IX, civil rights, employment law, and workplace and academic investigations. Her responsibilities included focusing on diversity efforts, sexual assault prevention and training, affirmative action, and protecting minors on campus.</p><p>Previously, Jody served as outside counsel to businesses and nonprofits in California, litigating employment and education matters.</p>

<p><strong>Joseph Storch</strong> is the Senior Director of Compliance and Innovation Solutions for Grand River Solutions. Joe furnishes technical guidance to numerous education institutions, organizations, and associations, has offered training across the U.S., and has twice served as an expert witness before the United States Senate (Armed Services, 2019; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 2016). He was previously in the SUNY Office of General Counsel where, in addition to his practice in student affairs, he founded the ARRIVE Center, serving as Principal Investigator on more than $20 million in funding. In 2015, Joe served as a technical adviser to the Office of the Governor, developing comprehensive legislation enacted as Article 129-B of the Education Law. That same year, NACUA awarded him its First Decade Award. In 2017, the One Love Foundation recognized his work in relationship violence prevention with its Unsung Hero Award and in 2018 the Pride Center of the Capital Region awarded him its Straight But Not Narrow award. In 2020, City and State selected him as one of its 40 Under 40. Joe is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of SUNY Oswego, of the University at Albany with a Masters of Public Policy, and of Cornell Law School. He served four years as Executive Editor of the Student Affairs Compliance Report &amp; Analysis, is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of College and University Law, and is the author of more than 75 articles and book chapters, most centering around campus safety or copyright law.</p>