Nadia M. Bazzy MA, LLMFT serves as an Assistant Director at the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR), with primary responsibility for OSCR's role in the University of Michigan Policy & Procedures on Student Sexual & Gender-Based Misconduct & Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence. Nadia's areas of specialties include: peacebuilding, restorative justice, and trauma-healing. She received her post graduate education from Oakland University in Couple and Family Counseling and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Nadia also holds a M.A. in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite University with a concentration in psycho-social recovery, during that time Nadia interned for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) where she supported the development of an online encyclopedia of peace building in the psycho-social recovery subsection. Nadia also attended the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she completed a B.A. in Political Science on a full-tuition scholarship. In addition to her work at OSCR Nadia works with couples and families in private practice and has previously worked in a domestic violence clinic. Nadia has lectured nationally for the last 15 years on various topics including: conflict, peacebuilding, reconciliation, and relationships. She continues to work with community organizations consulting and creating programming to foster dialogue.
Winston Roberts is the Associate Dean of Students at Seton Hall University in South Orange New Jersey, where he oversees Student Conduct, AOD and Sexual Violence Education/Prevention initiatives and Student Activities. He also serves as a member of the Seton Hall University student retention and completion committees as well as an adjunct instructor at Seton Hall University. Winston also serves as a facilitator of the CHOICES alcohol education workshop and is a member of Seton Hall’s Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT). Winston also stays active in the campus community by coaching the women’s club volleyball team at Seton Hall University.
Prior to his arrival at Seton Hall University, Winston worked at The State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany) serving as an Apartment Coordinator in the Department of Residential Life. Winston holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Policy Studies from SUNY Albany. Winston is currently pursuing his Doctoral degree at Seton Hall University in Education and Leadership.
Tonya Schmidt serves an Assistant Dean/Director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dean Schmidt has over 15 years of professional student affairs experience in residence life, student conduct, and the Dean of Students Office providing student assistance and advocacy and adjudicating the non-academic and academic misconduct processes at both public and private universities. Dean Schmidt works closely with Title IX issues at UW-Madison by adjudicating cases of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking, leading a Student Title IX Consultation Team, serving as a Title IX Deputy, and functioning as the Sexual Violence Liaison to UW System.
Stacy Vander Velde currently serves as the Director for Student Conduct at West Virginia University (WVU) located in Morgantown, West Virginia. In her role there, she has responsibility for the adjudication of Sexual Misconduct, Academic Misconduct, Student Organization Misconduct, as well as a variety of individual behavior related concerns.
Prior to joining the team at WVU, Stacy served as the Associate Director for the Office of Student Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan (UM). In her role there, she was responsible for administering a variety of conflict resolution pathways designed to build trust, promote justice, and teach peace. Additionally, Stacy has had experience working in residence life as well as working with aggressive adolescents who were in residential treatment.
Stacy has a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and a Business Foundations Certificate from Indiana University. She also has a Master of Science in College Student Personnel from Western Illinois University. She is passionate about student conduct and conflict resolution work. Addressing student behavior has been part of her career for over 20 years.
Stacy is active in the Association for Student Conduct Administration. She currently serves on the Board of Directors. She assisted a team of student conduct professionals in the creation of a sexual misconduct curriculum used by ASCA. Additionally, she has presented and trained on topics of Sexual Misconduct, Restorative Justice, Student Organization Conduct, and the Spectrum Model of Conflict Resolution at various campuses, training institutes, and conferences across the United States. In 2009, she was a contributing author to Reframing Campus Conduct: Student Conduct Practice through a Social Justice Lens edited by Schrage and Giacomini.
Dr. Bohdan “Bo” Zaryckyj currently serves as the Director of Student Conduct & Deputy Title IX Coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In Bo’s current position he oversees all aspects of the student conduct process, serves as a member of the Behavioral Intervention Team, and serves as Deputy Title IX Coordinator, where he oversees and/or facilitates investigations into all alleged violations of sexual misconduct where a student is the respondent. Before becoming a chief student conduct officer, at Springfield College and at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Bo worked professionally in residence life for five years as hall director and in mid-level management. At both institutions, where Bo worked in student conduct full time, he created student conduct offices from the ground floor. This included expansive code of conduct revisions, advocating for resources, supervising graduate and professional staff, implementing new software, etc. Additionally, Bo serves and as adjunct faculty member in the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Masters in Higher Education Administration, where he teaches Leadership, Law & Policy. Bo has served the Association of Student Conduct Administrators in regional and national capacities. This includes Circuit I Rep, MA State Rep, East Region Chair, led several initiatives for the Title IX COP, Gehring Faculty Fellow, etc. Bo’s educational background is as follows:
- Bachelors of Arts: History, Merrimack College, May 2004
- Masters of Education, Higher Education Administration, Northeastern University, December 2007
- Doctorate of Education, Higher Education Administration, New England College, May 2016
- Dissertation Topic: Chief Student Affairs Officers and the Decision-making Process
Bo resides in Nashua New Hampshire with his wife, Patrice, daughter Kaylee Belle, and son Kayden Thomas.