Programs and Speakers

Wendy Battles is a cybersecurity awareness professional, organizational change expert, and award-winning speaker who believes that building a strong security culture starts with people.

As Cybersecurity Awareness Advisor at Yale University, she leads the Bee Cyber Fit program, developing creative campaigns, training, and engagement strategies that help people recognize risks and make safer decisions.

With more than 30 years of experience in organizational change management, Wendy brings a human-centered approach to cybersecurity, helping organizations move beyond awareness to lasting behavior change. She co-chairs EDUCAUSE’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory Committee and is an accomplished podcast host, passionate about making cybersecurity approachable, relevant, and everyone’s responsibility.

Miriam Feldblum is co-founder, President and CEO of the Presidents’ Alliance. Miriam has over 30 years of experience in higher education administration, student support, and in teaching and research of immigration policy, politics, and higher education.  A national expert on the intersection of immigration and higher education and author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France, Miriam has written extensively on immigrant, refugee, and international students, immigration policy, and higher education practices. She previously served as Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students, and Professor of Politics at Pomona College, as Special Assistant to the President, Faculty Research Associate, and Senior Director of Academic Support and Planning  at the California Institute of Technology, and as Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.

Miriam received a BA in political science from Barnard College, and MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in political science from Yale University. She is on the Board of TheDream.US, a Public Member of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), and a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.  As a daughter of a refugee and Holocaust survivor, she is personally invested in these issues and in the success of immigrant, refugee, and international students and their families.

Emmanual A. Guillory is an advocate, policy expert, and motivational speaker who currently serves as the Senior Director of Government Relations at the American Council on Education (ACE). In this role, he manages an extensive portfolio of legislative and regulatory issues as a primary government relations resource for the broader higher education community to the United States Congress, the White House, the United States Department of Education, and other agencies as warranted. His portfolio includes a primary emphasis on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), especially Title IV programs, and the budget and appropriations process. Other issues within his portfolio include accreditation; college costs; student aid; institutional accountability; institutional aid in Titles III and V of the HEA; oversight; privacy; technology; accessibility; and disability, among others.

Previously, Guillory served as the Director of Student and Institutional Aid Policy at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) leading the private, nonprofit sector of higher education and as Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs at UNCF (the United Negro College Fund, Inc.). Guillory earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas A&M University, obtained his Master of Arts in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University, and is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Education in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Logan serves as executive director of B&D’s higher education practice group. He brings over 20 years of experience in higher education housing, auxiliary services, and student affairs. In his current role, he works with the firm’s higher education clients to identify and implement solutions that allow them to thrive and deliver on their academic mission, both from a facilities and operations perspective.

Dr. Logan’s expertise means that he understands what it takes to build, maintain, and strengthen a high-performing organization within the college and university environment. He comes to B&D from the Ohio State University, where he most recently served as Associate Vice President for the Residential Experience. At Ohio State and in his previous positions, Dr. Logan focused on the sustainable design, implementation, and oversight of comprehensive auxiliary operations and student affairs financial models. He has also served on the ACUHO-I Executive Board for over five years. He is a frequent speaker on higher education topics related to his expertise.

Scott Schneider is the founder of Schneider Education & Employment Law. He advises companies and educational institutions across the country on a wide range of complex legal matters, with a particular focus on sensitive issues such as institutional responses to sexual misconduct.

Before launching the firm, Scott was an equity partner at two national law firms and served as in-house counsel at Tulane University.

He is both a prominent litigator and a nationally sought-after advisor on Title IX, labor and employment law, and institutional risk management. Scott has led high-stakes investigations involving serial sexual abuse, misconduct by senior leadership, and other acts of institutional wrongdoing. He has also conducted high-profile program reviews addressing institutional responses to sexual misconduct, racial discrimination, athletics department ethics and compliance, and treatment of at-risk employees and students.

A dynamic and experienced trainer, Scott has delivered programs to thousands nationwide on topics including Title IX, labor and employment law, faculty hiring and tenure processes, and risk management in Greek Life. He is also frequently retained as an expert witness in cases involving institutional responses to allegations of sexual misconduct.

Scott regularly presents to national organizations such as the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA) Gehring Academy, the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), the Association of College and University Housing Officers–International (ACUHO-I), EDUCAUSE, and various independent school associations.

Previously, Scott was an award-winning professor at Tulane University, where he taught courses on higher education and labor and employment law, and created Tulane Law School’s Title IX certification program. He also serves as faculty for the National Center for Campus Public Safety’s Trauma-Informed Sexual Assault Investigation and Adjudication program and for the State University of New York’s Student Conduct Institute, where he trains on informal resolution and restorative justice.

Scott is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for Best Lawyers in America© in both Education Law and Labor and Employment Law. He has also been recognized by The Legal 500 for his work in education law, named a Top Attorney by Austin Monthly, and inducted into the New Orleans CityBusiness Leadership in Law Hall of Fame.