Cherie Scricca is a nationally recognized subject-matter expert with more than 30 years of experience in higher education administrative management, including the last fourteen years focusing on issues of harassment and discrimination in Title IX and related fields. She is known as an educational consultant with distinct abilities in assessing and improving departmental and institutional policies and workflows, employing best practices, and utilizing available resources to meet institutional goals and compliance obligations. A passionate advocate for meaningful, effective solutions to interpersonal violence, her intimate understanding of the needs of students, faculty, and staff enables her to address highly sensitive issues among and across the diverse communities found on campuses.

In July 2014, Cherie co-founded Project IX, a nonprofit company dedicated to helping smaller secondary schools, colleges and universities effectively address issues of Title IX policies, response, education, and compliance. Project IX provided small, under-resourced institutions with customized, hands-on, assistance crafting Title IX sexual assault response procedures that reflected each institution’s values and unique culture. Since 2017, Cherie, along with her co-founders, have transformed Grand River Solutions from its origin as Project IX into the nation’s largest practitioner-based provider of immediate and long-term solutions for harassment and discrimination.

Cherie has held leadership positions at both public and private universities giving her unparalleled insight into the organizational structure and operations of higher education institutions. These include University of Maryland, University of California at Berkeley, Occidental College, University of California, University of California Law San Francisco, and Minnesota State University.

Cherie received her Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Education in the management of higher education programs, where her research focused on “University-Industry Research Partnerships” in higher education. She received her M.S. in women’s studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and her B.A. in political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.