Meredith Smith spent a decade working in Title IX and nearly two decades in higher education administration overall, serving as the Title IX Coordinator for the University of Virginia and the Assistant Provost for Title IX and Clery Compliance and the Sexual Misconduct Response/Title IX Coordinator at Tulane University. Meredith is a founding member of the Administrator Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) and works for the Victim Rights Law Center as a Department of Justice Violence Against Women grant consultant. She has participated in the Office on Violence Against Women roundtable on sexual violence adjudication and the American Bar Association’s recommendations on college sexual assault investigation and adjudication. She contributed a chapter to Addressing Violence Against Women on College Campuses (Temple University Press, 2017). She was also a guest editor of The Society for Public Health Education’s journal Health Education & Behavior‘s 2020 journal supplement on college sexual assault policy and prevention. She is currently serving on a National Science Foundation grant on sexual misconduct climate surveys. For her work on the Tulane Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey and subsequent culture change initiatives, she was honored with a 2019 Visionary Voice Award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Meredith has a BA (magna cum laude) in English-Creative Writing from Miami University, a JD  from The Ohio State University, and a MS Ed in Administration and Policy from Northwestern University.

“Bailey,” as he prefers to be called, has been a leader through several campus crises including COVID-19, a campus shooting that led to 2 fatalities and 4 wounded, nooses on campus, and Hurricane Katrina. He co-authored a chapter in Campus crisis management: A comprehensive guide to planning, prevention, response, and recovery. He was the subject of a two-part video series produced by IUP-TV entitled “The Tulane University Experience withL Katrina: Crisis Management and eadership.” An article in Student Affairs Today featured lessons learned by Bailey from leading during difficult times.

Jerusha Kasch has served as Director of Institutional Crisis Management at Rice University since 2017.  In addition to 15 years of experience as an emergency manager, Jerusha worked 17 years in multiple response systems including, EMS, law enforcement, hospitals, and clinical care.

 She is a Certified Emergency Manager (International Association of Emergency Managers) and a certified FEMA NIMS instructor and Incident Management Team member.  She has filled nearly all ICS command and general staff roles in incident response.