On Campus - with CITI Program

Katy Washington serves as the Director in the Office of Disability Access at the University of North Texas. She has spent over sixteen years working with faculty and staff to facilitate an inclusive campus environment for disabled students in various educational settings to promote diversity, intersectionality, and access. Katy currently serves on the Board of Directors President-Elect for the Ass...

Amy Gatto is interested in the relationship between health and education. Blending together her experiences as a former high school teacher, higher education health educator, and young adult health researcher, she has found a niche in working to improve adolescent and young adult mental health at Active Minds. Amy is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida in the College of Public...

Lorna Fink, is an experienced education administrator and consultant focused on providing solutions to compliance, risk management, and equity challenges. She regularly speaks at national conferences on topics related to education compliance, risk management, business process optimization, policy development, and Title IX compliance, and has designed and presented workshops for ICUF, Academic Impr...

Amber Grove, the Director of Title IX and Clery Compliance at the University of North Carolina Wilmington spoke to On Campus with CITI Program about the overlap between Title IX and the Clery Act. Amber has served in her role at University of North Carolina Wilmington since January 2016. She initially got her start in higher education in residence life at Duquesne University. In her role as reside...

Negar Shekarabi, Psy. D is the Coordinator of Faculty and Staff Support Services at University of California, Irvine. In her role, Negar provides oversight and oversees mental health support services for both faculty and staff. She has worked in university settings providing mental health services since 2006, including University of California, Riverside Counseling Center and most recently the Uni...

Title IX is a federal law that was part of the Education Amendments of 1972. While Title IX is centered around prohibiting sex-based discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal financial assistance, it has undergone many regulatory changes throughout the years. In 2020, the Trump administration made a rule change to Title IX, which brought changes to the enforcement of Title IX...

Abigail Ogden leads the Clery compliance program at the University of California – Berkeley. As the first person to hold this position, she is passionate about creating a university-wide culture of cooperation that models compliance and promotes campus safety. Abigail specializes in practical applications of the Clery Act on campus with attention to policy and procedure development, data analysis,...

Dr. Inika Pierre Williams, the Statewide Director of Pre-Collegiate Programs and Mentoring Initiatives with the Florida Department of Education spoke to On Campus with CITI Program about supporting nontraditional students in higher education institutions. In her role at the Florida Department of Education, Inika manages $132 million in state appropriations for programs that seek to prepare economi...

Ed Purchase, the Public Safety Operations and Clery Act Training Coordinator at the University of North Carolina system spoke to On Campus with CITI Program about campus safety and collaboration. In his role at the UNC system, Ed is primarily responsible for providing training, guidance, support, and technical assistance to the sixteen campus Clery Compliance Officers in the UNC system. Campus saf...

Philip A. Chan, MD, MS, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and School of Public Health at Brown University and infectious diseases physician spoke to On Campus with CITI Program about COVID-19, variants, and implications for higher education institutions. Dr. Chan also serves as Consultant Medical Director for the Rhode Island Department of Health Division of Preparedness, Respon...

Jason Heil, Clery Act Coordinator, Crime Analyst, and Crime Prevention Specialist with University of California, San Francisco spoke to On Campus with CITI Program about Clery Act crimes. Jason has dedicated more than a decade to Clery Act compliance, crime analysis and reporting, campus safety and infrastructure protection, and community liaison to the campus community on issues of safety and cri...

Melinda Latas, Chief Compliance Officer at California State University, spoke to On Campus with CITI Program about the Clery Act. Prior to her time at California State University, Melinda managed Clery compliance at the Ohio State University. The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act or Clery Act is a federal law signed in 1990 that requires institutions...