Andrea Stagg is the Director of Consulting Services at Grand River Solutions. Andrea also serves as a training facilitator.

Andrea has served in various legal and compliance roles at public and private colleges prior to joining Grand River Solutions. As Deputy General Counsel and Director of Government Relations & Compliance at Barnard College she oversaw all legal and compliance matters. Before joining Barnard, Andrea was counsel to three colleges within the State University of New York and provided SUNY-wide Title IX compliance advice. At SUNY, Andrea co-coordinated a working group that created the policies that evolved into New York Education Law Article 129B, a groundbreaking state law providing fair and transparent practices to prevent and respond to sexual and interpersonal violence on campus. Andrea worked in federal higher education lobbying for Rutgers University before attending law school.

Andrea is an active member of the University Risk Managers and Insurance Association and the National Association of College of University Attorneys, through which she has authored several peer-reviewed publications and facilitated education sessions during conferences and webinars. Most recently, she co-wrote a chapter on the Clery Act and Title IX for  Convergence of Litigation, Policy, and Standards: Building the Informed Practitioner in Education Abroad Risk Management  (Pollard & Priebe, 2024).

In 2014, Andrea was awarded the Commissioner’s Award from the State University Police, and in 2019 she received the First Decade Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys. She graduated from Rutgers University and The George Washington University Law School.