Meredith M. Smith, JD, MS Ed, joins Rankin after a decade of working in Title IX and nearly two decades in higher education administration overall. She was the Title IX Coordinator for the University of Virginia and the Assistant Provost for Title IX and Clery Compliance and the Sexual Misconduct Response/Title IX Coordinator at Tulane University. She has previously worked as a Deputy Title IX Coordinator and Lead Title IX investigator at the University of Connecticut, and before that, at Northwestern University, Dartmouth College, Miami University, and The Ohio State University. 

She is a founding member of the Administrator Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) and works for the Victim Rights Law Center as a Department of Justice Violence Against Women grant consultant. She has participated in the Office on Violence Against Women roundtable on sexual violence adjudication and the American Bar Association’s recommendations on college sexual assault investigation and adjudication. She contributed a chapter to Addressing Violence Against Women on College Campuses (Temple University Press, 2017). She was also a guest editor of The Society for Public Health Education’s journal Health Education & Behavior‘s 2020 journal supplement on college sexual assault policy and prevention. She is currently serving on a National Science Foundation grant on sexual misconduct climate surveys. For her work on the Tulane Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey and subsequent culture change initiatives, she was honored with a 2019 Visionary Voice Award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. 

She has a BA (magna cum laude) in English-Creative Writing from Miami University, a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University, and a Masters of Science in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University.