Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
Speaker Bios
Consultant Bios
Robert T. Kent
For Robert's photo, full bio, and credentials, visit his team member page on the Bricker Graydon website.
Kylie E. Stryffeler
For Kylie's photo, full bio, and credentials, visit her team member page on the Bricker Graydon website.
Clery Act Compliance Practitioner Bios
Tracie Bogus
Tracie Bogus currently serves as the Clery Compliance Program Director for the University of Southern California. Prior to her role at USC, Tracie served as the Police Records and Compliance Manager for Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), where she managed police records for 22 campuses across the Commonwealth of PA and Clery Act compliance for 24 Penn State campuses. Tracie lives in Central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Penn State. She is committed to helping to make the campus a safer place to live, work, and learn.
Dr. Rebecca DeCesare
Rebecca DeCesare is a Clery practitioner with fifteen years of experience in higher education, with eight of those years serving as a Clery Compliance Officer at two different institutions.
Dr. DeCesare currently serves as an Assistant Director in the UF Compliance and Ethics office and as the Clery Compliance Officer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Prior to her current position at UF, she was the Senior Operations Coordinator and Clery Compliance Officer at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. Dr. DeCesare has extensive training in Clery, Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA), and Title IX compliance, participating in training offered by D. Stafford and Associates, the National Association of Clery Compliance Officers (NACCOP), the Clery Center, Grand River Solutions, and other organizations. In her role at UF, she has compliance oversight of its robust Clery program, which includes academic health centers, an international campus, a K-12 laboratory school, and agricultural sites focused on farming and livestock – totaling 37 separate campuses. She is also responsible for analyzing and reconciling crime data, publishing UF’s Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report, maintaining the Clery administrative file, and sending law enforcement request letters. In addition, she oversees the compliance of the DFSCA compliance program.
Dr. DeCesare is a three-time graduate of the University of Central Florida, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Arts in Sociology (Domestic Violence track), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (Crime & Deviance track). Dr. DeCesare’s doctoral dissertation focused on how community characteristics impact crime rates, using Clery crime data and UCR data from higher education institutions and law enforcement agencies in the Central Florida area, analyzed through the lenses of social disorganization theory and collective efficacy.
Christa Hribar
Christa Hribar is the Assistant Compliance Director and Clery Act Coordinator at the Ohio State University. She manages institutional compliance with the Clery Act for the University’s six campuses. Prior to joining the Office of University Compliance and Integrity, she was part of the Records Section in the Ohio State University Department of Public Safety. Christa earned her BA in English from Cleveland State University and her Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University. She is currently enrolled in the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s Master in the Study of Law program.
Ed Purchase
Ed Purchase has served the great states of North Carolina and Florida in a Clery compliance capacity since 2011. In his current role with The University of North Carolina System Office, Ed is responsible for providing training, guidance, and technical assistance to the sixteen Clery compliance coordinators of the UNC System. Additionally, Ed assists the System with coordinating and facilitating system-wide training of campus law enforcement, emergency management, behavioral threat assessment teams, Environmental Health and Safety, Protection of Minors, and other parties responsible for the safety and welfare of their campus communities. Ed, an OEF Veteran, holds a B.A. in English and a Master’s in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University and a post-graduate certificate in Community Preparedness and Disaster Management from The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
UC Office of the President Internal Speaker Bios
Isabel Alvarado
Isabel Alvarado (née Dees), she/her/ella, is the Systemwide Title IX Deputy Director at UC Office of the President. She joined UCOP after serving as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor of Equity & Equal Protection at UC Santa Cruz, where she held the plenary titles of Title IX Coordinator, Locally Designated Official (LDO), ADA Coordinator, & Equal Employment and Opportunity (EEO) Director. Originally from the Los Angeles area, Isabel has lived and worked in the Santa Cruz area since 1998. Isabel is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and the first in her family to attend university. She received her law degree from Monterey College of Law and completed her B.A. in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. Isabel is a queer educational rights advocate with over 15 years of experience working on compliance in higher education. She identifies as a member of the disability community, which informs a holistic approach to compliance focused on meaningful inclusion through agency models of service and transformative justice principles. Isabel is a fluent Spanish speaker, bi-cultural and bi-literate, and fiercely proud and grateful for her cultura. Isabel loves local state parks and enjoys baking, knitting, and gardening.
Hannah Noll-Wilensky
Hannah Noll-Wilensky joined the UC Office of the President in 2020 as an Assistant Counsel for the Health Affairs, Privacy, and Data Protection Law group and currently serves as a Policy and Compliance officer for the Systemwide Title IX office. She advises the campuses on matters relating to Title IX policy, privacy, and healthcare compliance. Hannah has over a decade of experience in civil rights. Before joining UC, she worked for the Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco and served as a law clerk for the Human Rights Commission, the ACLU Women's Rights Project, the UCSF/UC Hastings Medical Legal Clinic for Seniors, and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Hannah graduated from Lewis and Clark College (B.A.) and the University of California Law, San Francisco (J.D.).
David A. Zonana
David Zonana joined the Office of General Counsel as Principal Counsel in 2022. See David's full professional bio on the UC Legal - Office of General Counsel webpage.