Ashley Ruderman-Looff, PhD (she/her)
Title IX Coordinator and Bias Incident Response Officer
[email protected] | 508-386-3261
Location: Knapton 317B
Dr. Ashley Ruderman-Looff, Wheaton’s Title IX Coordinator and Bias Incident Response Officer, facilitates the College’s response to allegations of sex discrimination, and leads the Bias Incident Response Team.
Ashley joins Wheaton with more than 10 years of experience in higher education and sexual violence response, where she has held both faculty appointments and leadership roles in student affairs and civil rights compliance. Prior to Wheaton, Ashley served as the Director of Institutional Equity at Rhode Island College, where she administered the College’s VI, VII, and IX, and ADA/504 grievance procedures.
As Assistant Director for Advocacy and Education at UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality, Ashley worked as both a preventionist and the University’s sole confidential victim advocate, building on her community sexual violence advocacy experience in Lexington, Kentucky. She was recognized by the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals as a Promising New Professional in 2022.
Ashley’s teaching and research experience in critical carceral studies informs her intersectional approach to civil rights compliance and sexual violence response and prevention in higher education. She holds a PhD in Gender & Women’s Studies and an MA in English from the University of Kentucky, and a BA in English from Gonzaga University.
For questions, or to make a report of sex discrimination, Ashley can be reached via the contact information above or at [email protected]