Bias Resource and Response Team (BRRT)

2024-2025 Members:

•    Kelvin Baah, Graduate Assistant, Office of Student Accessibility Services
•    Sierra Bonerb, Director of Support Services, Griff Center
•    Sarah Blakely-McClure, Assistant Professor, Psychology 
•    Audrey Browka, Director, Public Relations, University Communications
•    Jeannette Delaney, Senior Assistant Director, Undergraduate Admissions
•    Aimee Larson, Director & Chair, Physician Assistant Program
•    Jonathan Lawrence, Associate Professor, Religious Studies/Theology
•    Monika McFoy, Associate Dean of Students & Director of the Multicultural Student Center
•    Samuel Nortey, Graduate Assistant, Office of International Education 
•    Mark Piatkowski, Associate Director, Department of Student Life
•    Fatima Rodriguez Johnson, Associate Dean, Office of Diversity & Inclusion
•    Clayton Staton, Director, Public Safety
•    Patrick Stouter, Unity Student Representative  

BRRT Committee Charge:

The Bias Resource and Response Team (BRRT) is a university committee devoted to campus-wide education and the promotion of best practices in addressing incidents and practices involving institutional and individual violations of university policies and values in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

The BRRT is charged with reviewing institutional actions, policies, and practices and making appropriate recommendations to the Senior Leadership Team as to how the university’s commitment to a campus culture where diversity, equity, and inclusion are a priority can be enhanced and promoted.   

The BRRT is also charged with ensuring that incidents involving bias are recognized and addressed as such by persons or departments with primary jurisdiction for investigations and disciplinary processes, such as Human Resources, Public Safety, the Title IX Coordinator, and Student Life.  In these cases, the BRRT has supplementary jurisdiction and does not preempt existing institutional policies and processes.  The BRRT does not conduct independent investigations but instead, serves as a resource for those with primary responsibility for such investigations.

The college’s Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion will be the chair of the BRRT. Additional members of the BRRT are appointed by the President.