Title IX Office Staff

The Title IX Coordinator is responsible for ensuring compliance with Title IX, overseeing training and education, and gathering and reporting information to the campus community. The office staff are available to answer any questions related to the policies, complaint procedures, available resources and reporting options, and remedial and safety measures.

Ebony Manning
Title IX Coordinator
Horace Mann 305
47 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-2026
[email protected] 
[email protected]

The Title IX and Gender Equity Office supports faculty, staff, students, affiliates, and guests of the University. 

Our Professional Development

The Title IX Coordinator and staff  are responsible for coordinating the formal and informal resolution procedures and implementing support measures and interim actions.  To do this work, the Title IX Coordinator and staff are trained annually on the jurisdictional scope of Title IX, managing a Title IX grievance procedure, mitigating conscious and unconscious bias, and on topics related responding sexual harasment and sexual violence reports (see related files is specific training content). 

Academic year 2022/2023
Title IX Compliance Training
by Dan Schorr, LLC

Affiliated Staff

The following OIED Staff  and in some cases external investigators support the Title IX and Gender Equity Office in the investigation and adjudication of formal complaints.  These individuals are trained annually on identifying and mitgating implicit and explicit forms of bias, the specifics of their role, the jurisdictional scope of Title IX and University Sexual and Gender-based Misconduct policy, as well as University definitions of consent and incapacitation (see related files for Investigator Training). 

Title IX Case Manager
Erin Torres, Title IX Case Manager

Deputy Title IX Coordinators
Yolanda Castillo-Appollonio, Deputy Title IX Coordinator (Undergraduate Students)
Lindasy Orchowski, Deputy Title IX Coordinator (Medical School)
Maria E. Suarez, Deputy Title IX Coordinator (Graduate Students)
Anne Windham, Deputy Title IX Coordinator (Faculty)

Internal Investigators
Jeana Horton, Senior Institutional Equity Investigator
Bianca Figueroa-Santana, Institutional Equity Investigator

Dismissal Appeal Officer
Juana L. Parillon, Assistant Vice President of Equal Opportunity and Diversity