Dr. Freda D. Grant

Dr. Freda D. Grant is a civil rights compliance strategist, scholar, and educator whose work operates at the intersection of law, lived experience, and institutional accountability. With deep expertise in Title IX, gender-based harassment, disability access, and equity policy implementation, she supports colleges and organizations in moving beyond procedural compliance toward meaningful culture change that strengthens institutional response systems and advances community responsibility.

Dr. Grant currently serves as Director of Civil Rights Compliance and ADA/504 Coordinator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator, where she leads investigations, policy interpretation, grievance resolution, and institutional education initiatives addressing discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and access barriers. Her work bridges compliance practice with prevention-focused training designed to strengthen institutional capacity and reduce harm before it escalates.

Her scholarship is grounded in Black feminist policy analysis and examines how institutional structures shape the conditions under which marginalized communities navigate violence, persistence, and accountability systems. She is the creator of the “We Stayed Enrolled” framework, which examines the experiences of Black women persisting in higher education during pregnancy, and the CAER Model (Conduct Awareness & Equity Response), a psychoeducational approach to strengthening conduct awareness and behavioral accountability in response to bias and policy-related harm.

In addition to her work in higher education compliance, Dr. Grant has taught sociology and women’s and gender studies courses to incarcerated students through college-in-prison programs, where her teaching focused on gender-based violence, structural inequality, and educational access across carceral systems. This experience informs her broader approach to institutional accountability and her commitment to understanding how policy environments shape survival strategies across both campus and correctional contexts.

Dr. Grant’s philosophy begins with a simple but radical premise: the people most harmed by institutional failures are often the most qualified to diagnose them. Her training methodology centers their knowledge, their language, and their survival strategies, not as anecdotes, but as data. Across her compliance practice, teaching, and research, she approaches institutional reform as both a policy responsibility and a practice grounded in lived expertise.

She draws on Black feminist theory, critical race scholarship, and decades of front-line compliance work to build training experiences that are simultaneously rigorous and accessible. Her sessions are known for their intellectual depth, their emotional honesty, and their refusal to let institutions off the hook with easy answers.

At the core of everything she does is a commitment to the idea that equity work is not finished when policy is written — it is only beginning.