Cheri Burgess helps to lead efforts to support the University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion by ensuring compliance with state and federal obligations related to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination; overseeing the University’s process for responding to complaints of harassment, discrimination and retaliation; and developing and facilitating related learning opportunities. With more than 30 years’ experience in the areas of non-discrimination and fair employment practices, Cheri served as a labor and employment associate at a mid-size law firm; an in-house attorney concentrating in employment and education law at the New York City Board of Education; and an EEO specialist at a large corporation handling EEOC charges in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions before joining Princeton in 2006. Cheri has a B.A. in Journalism and Media Arts from Long Island University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.