Leah Gutknecht, MBA, is the Title IX Officer at the University of Northern Iowa where she serves as the Assistant to the President for Civil Rights Compliance. She oversees the functions of equal opportunity, affirmative action, and compliance with Title VII, Title IX, and ADA. Gutknecht is a certified civil rights mediator and has served as a civil rights investigator and Title IX Officer for over 20 years. She coordinated UNI’s conversion to a One Policy One Procedure model, organized a Title IX audit, compiled teams of investigators, deputy coordinators, and advisors, and led efforts to serve as a pilot institution for the Culture of Respect national program. Working with student government, she lead the institution’s Green Dot gender violence prevention programming. Being a member of the first cohort of ATIXA trained coordinators in 2011, Gutknecht had the pleasure presenting at the 2015, 2017, and 2024 national conferences, presenting an ATIXA One Policy One Procedure online training, contributing as a featured columnist for Title IX Today, serving as a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Campus IX, and contributing to ATIXA through her role as an Advisory Board member.