You Are Invited: Title IX Counsel and Coordinators Summit: Trauma Informed Practices on Campus

You are invited to attend Cullen and Dykman's second annual Title IX Counsel and Coordinators Summit on Monday, April 28, 2025. The 2025 Summit will focus on how to utilize trauma informed practices on campus, and feature a presentation by Sanctuary for Families, a panel discussion by Title IX practitioners, and a 2025 Legal Update recapping notable 2024 litigation and recent administrative action impacting Title IX practice. For those attending in person, lunch will be served. CLE credit will be available for New York attorneys.

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Time:

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Location:

Cullen and Dykman's NYC Office (One Battery Park Plaza, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10004) or Virtual (Zoom)

Overview

• 10:00 AM - Sanctuary for Families Presentation: Trauma Informed Practices on Campus
• 11:00 AM - Panel Discussion by Title IX Practitioners
• 12:00 PM - 2025 Legal Update

Speakers

Nicole A. Donatich Partner

Nicole A. Donatich is a partner in Cullen and Dykman's Higher Education practice group. Nicole possesses extensive experience representing universities and colleges in a wide array of legal matters and advises several private institutions in NY state on Title IX investigations, policy and litigation. Nicole previously oversaw the entire Title IX program at the City University of New York (25 campuses) as a member of the Office of General Counsel and as the interim University Title IX Director, during which time she drafted the University wide Sexual Misconduct Policy after the 2020 Regulations, developed procedures and templates to effectuate the policy, navigated the intersection with a unionized faculty and staff, trained Title IX practitioners and other volunteers, oversaw and advised on campus based investigations and student disciplinary matters and litigated employee sexual misconduct disciplinary arbitrations. Nicole previously served as a Title IX investigator at Columbia University and began her career as a Bronx County prosecutor, which lends a unique dimension to her investigative and litigation experience.

Dan Schorr President

Dan Schorr is a former criminal prosecutor and municipal inspector general with more than 25 years of legal and investigative experience. He manages a variety of complex assignments, including investigations into sexual misconduct, Civil Rights, and fraud allegations at educational institutions, corporations, and government entities. In addition to specializing in Title IX investigations, Dan assists higher education and K-12 schools by conducting policy and program reviews, training personnel on all aspects of Title IX and Civil Rights compliance, and serving in hearing officer and decision maker roles. Dan is a pre-approved Sexual Misconduct Investigator for the United Educators ProResponse Expert Services Benefit, and he is the author of two novels, Final Table and Open Bar.

Caroline Grosshans Senior Staff Attorney

Caroline Grosshans is a Senior Staff Attorney at Sanctuary for Families, a non-profit organization based in New York City providing legal representation to survivors of gender-based violence.

Caroline’s work at Sanctuary for Families with the Campus Advocates Project focuses on representing victims of gender-based violence in the university setting including student survivors, staff, and faculty. Her clients often pursue justice through on-campus Title IX investigations, criminal cases, and family court proceedings. Since its inception in 2015, the Campus Advocates Projects has grown to serve clients at over 65 institutions all over the country. In addition to representing her clients, Caroline regularly conducts student outreach and know your rights trainings. 

Previously Caroline served as a judicial law clerk for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Caroline also practiced as a criminal defense attorney at Hafetz & Necheles representing clients in federal court. She began her legal career as a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Caroline is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Jessica Morak Executive Director of Institutional Equity/Chief Diversity Officer/Title IX Coordinator

Jessica Morak is the Executive Director of Institutional Equity, Chief Diversity Officer, Title IX Coordinator, and Ethics Officer at the Graduate Center. She previously served as an Associate General Counsel in the Litigation, Employment, and Student Affairs Unit (LESA) in CUNY’s Office of the General Counsel. In addition to her other duties, Jessica spent a significant amount of time training on, implementing, updating, and consulting on CUNY’s Policy on Sexual Misconduct.  

Prior to joining CUNY, Jessica worked as a Staff Attorney at Sanctuary for Families, where she advocated on behalf of survivors of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, sex trafficking, cyber sexual abuse, and other forms of gender-based violence. While at Sanctuary, Jessica primarily worked to build the Campus Advocates Project, a novel program providing holistic and comprehensive services and support to student survivors of gender-based violence pursuing matters in the Title IX system, Civil Justice System, and/or Criminal Justice System. Jessica participated in many Title IX hearings as an attorney-advisor and has discussed her experience as an attorney-advisor during trainings, webinars, presentations, and podcasts. Jessica co-authored a Title IX Advisor Resource with SUNY’s Student Conduct Institute (SCI). Jessica started her career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office’s Child Abuse & Sex Crimes Bureau, where she investigated and prosecuted countless sexual assaults against children and adults.

Jessica is the former co-chair of the New York Cyber Sexual Abuse Task Force and a member of the New York Women’s Bar Association’s Criminal Law and Human Trafficking Committees. She is the recipient of the 2020 Lydia Martinez Multidisciplinary Collaboration Award, Attorney category. Jessica is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.