Jody Shipper is the founder of Project IX, a non-profit corporation dedicated to working with smaller or under-resourced campuses to provide support and advice regarding Title IX, VAWA, and gender-based harm.  Previously, Ms. Shipper was Systemwide Director for Title IX/VAWA/Clery and Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence for the University of California system.  Prior to that role, she was Executive Director of the Office of Equity and Diversity at the University of Southern California, where she also served as the university’s chief Title IX administrator.  In that capacity she provided advice on diversity efforts and sexual assault prevention and training, and guidance to staff and faculty on issues and concerns related to diversity and protected classes.  Ms. Shipper also provides advice and guidance to the institution regarding university-wide efforts reduce and prevent violence.  

Ms. Shipper has conducted and overseen thousands of investigations, and lectures extensively at universities and conferences throughout the United States on Title IX law, institutional responsibilities, and the implementation of best practices.  Prior to this work, Ms. Shipper served a broad range of private and non-profit employers in California as outside counsel, litigating employment and education matters in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies.  She received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco and her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. 

Sandhya Subramanian, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, has been at Oberlin College since July 2008. Before that, Ms. Subramanian served as chief attorney at the U.S. Department of Education’s Cleveland Office for Civil Rights, where she helped to lead efforts to enforce federal laws barring educational entities from engaging in discrimination on the bases of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, and age.  Previously, Ms. Subramanian was a special litigation counsel in the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C.  She also worked as a policy counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families from 1998 to 2000, where she coordinated a nationwide initiative to make family and medical leave more affordable and conducted outreach on gender discrimination issues.  At the National Partnership, she coauthored an amicus curiae brief successfully arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should recognize a cause of action for peer sexual harassment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. She also served as a clerk for Judge Sidney R. Thomas of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Billings, MT. Ms. Subramanian graduated from Yale College with a BS, summa cum laude, in chemistry and women’s studies in 1993.  She earned her JD in 1996 from the Yale Law School, where she served as an articles editor on the staff of the Yale Law Journal.  She also coauthored an article, Mrs. Dred Scott, that was subsequently published in the Journal in 1997. Ms. Subramanian served as an at-large member of the NACUA Board of Directors from 2012 to 2015.