TITLE IX COORDINATOR TRAINING

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Melinda GreirMelinda W. Grier served as NACUA's Director of Legal Resources. Previously, she consulted on issues related to higher education law and policy, advised institutions of higher education and other public employers through her firm Melinda Grier Consulting and as Of Counsel to Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP. Ms. Grier worked in higher education as an administrator and a lawyer for over thirty years, as General Counsel for the University of Oregon and as Chief Legal Officer, Affirmative Action and Compliance Officer for the Oregon University System. In NACUA, she served as President, Treasurer and a member-at-large of the Board of Directors.  She received the NACUA Distinguished Service Award in 2009 and became a Life Member in 2017. 

 

 


Janet JudgeJanet P. Judge is a Partner with the Education & Sports Law Group, LLC. An active association member since 2004, Janet currently serves on the on the NACUA Board and the Committee on Programming for the Annual Conference. She has presented, moderated, and led group discussions at more than 25 NACUA events, is an instructor for NACUA’s Title IX Coordinators Training, and co-presented NACUA’s briefing on Title IX and Challenges to Sex-Based Scholarships.

 

 

 

 


Marjorie Fisher

Associate Vice President Marjory Fisher is Columbia University's Title IX Coordinator, responsible for monitoring the university's policies and procedures for resolving sexual and gender-based misconduct, harassment, and other complaints under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions.  In addition, Ms. Fisher provides guidance on investigations, oversees Deputy Title IX Coordinators at the University, and is responsible for training University staff and others on Title IX issues. 

Ms. Fisher brings extensive legal and investigative experience to her post. She joined Columbia from T&M Protection Resources, where she served as Senior Managing Director of the Sexual Misconduct Consulting & Investigations Division. Ms. Fisher was formerly Bureau Chief of the Special Victims Bureau in the Queens District Attorney's Office for 22 years, and prior to that served for eight years as Assistant District Attorney in the Sex Crimes Bureau and supervising Trial Attorney in the Homicide Bureau of the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney's Office.   

In her capacity at T&M, Ms. Fisher conducted sensitive investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct as well as provided Title IX trainings for investigators, adjudicators, faculty, administrators, staff and students at a wide range of colleges, universities and K-12 private and public schools. She also provided sexual harassment and investigations training for various private businesses and non-profit institutions. 

Ms. Fisher has been a St. John's University Law School Adjunct Professor, where she taught a course on Sexual Assault and Family Violence.  She is the recipient of multiple awards for excellence in trial work and the pursuit of justice, including recognition from the Mt. Sinai Rape Crisis and Intervention Program and the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. 

She earned her juris doctor from George Washington University's National Law Center.

 

MEET OUR GUEST SPEAKERS

NACUA is pleased to announce that we will be joined by several guest speakers during the Fall 2022 class series.  Philip J. Catanzano, Partner at Education & Sports Law, and Amy Wilson, Managing Director of Inclusion at The National Collegiate Athletic Association, will share their expertise during classes four and six, respectively.


Phil Catanzano

Phil Catanzano is currently a co-founder of Education & Sports Law Group.  Prior to starting Education & Sports Law Group, Phil was Senior Counsel at Holland & Knight for seven years and an attorney at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights for almost a decade where he investigated institutions accused of discrimination on the basis of disability, gender, or race/ethnicity, among others.  Phil has also served in Title IX coordinating roles and supportive roles for accessibility services offices on an interim basis.  In the accessibility context, this includes advising around accommodation processes, physical accessibility, and digital accessibility.  A primary aspect of Phil's practice is representing institutions involved in investigations or compliance reviews with federal regulators from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice.  Phil also teaches higher education law at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, as well as at Boston College.  Using this classroom experience, Phil often shares with audiences the practical challenges and benefits of creating an accessible classroom environment.  

 


Amy Wilson

Dr. Amy Wilson serves as the NCAA’s Managing Director of Inclusion where she drives inclusive excellence throughout college athletics by supporting member institutions’ commitment to diversity, inclusion and gender equity among its student-athletes, coaches, and administrators.  Wilson leads the NCAA Office of Inclusion’s efforts to provide resources, education, and support in the core areas of disability, international, LGBTQ, race/ethnicity, and women.  An expert on gender equity and Title IX, she has authored multiple national reports on Title IX.  Wilson has led projects such as optimizing the Senior Woman Administrator designation and serves on the leadership team for the Common Ground initiative, which fosters discussions about religion and LGBTQ with the goal of supporting all student-athletes.  Wilson’s entire career has been in higher education where she won multiple awards for teaching excellence.  A member of the Illinois College Athletics Hall of Fame, Wilson has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English and earned a Ph.D. in Health and Sport Studies with a concentration in Athletic Administration at the University of Iowa.  Since 2005, she has worked closely with nationally recognized Title IX expert Dr. Christine Grant on equity issues in intercollegiate athletics and has given numerous presentations on Title IX, gender equity, and inclusion on both the national and international levels.  In 2018, Women Leaders in College Sports (formerly NACWAA) honored Wilson with the Nell Jackson Award.