Michael Cato (Moderator)

Michael leads Bowdoin College's Information Technology strategy and operations through the Information and Technology department and has spent well over 20 years in Higher Education IT. He is active in a number of professional organizations such as CAUDIT, EDUCAUSE, and NERCOMP, and the Next Leaders Fellowship, with an emphasis on leadership development, inclusive leadership, and the array of issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion. He is the 2022 Technology Executive of the Year – Education award winner from the IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), and the 2021 recipient of the EDUCAUSE DEI Leadership Award.

Michael holds a B.S. in Zoology from Andrews University and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University. He loves to learn, read, eat, and occasionally cook and starts most days being humbled by CrossFit. Michael is raising an awesome son with his partner and wife Heather.

 

Anita Davis

Anita Davis began serving as Trinity’s inaugural vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion in September 2018. In this role, she provides strategic leadership to advance institutional goals that promote and enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the community. Under her leadership, the Office of DEI is composed of four departments: Multicultural Affairs, the Queer Resource Center, the Women and Gender Resource Action Center, and Title IX. She co-directs the Office of Human Resources and serves as co-chair of the Task Force on Campus Climate and vice chair of the Campus Climate Incident Response Team. Davis is also the senior administrative liaison to the Board of Trustees DEI subcommittee, the Task Force on the Status of Women, and the Non-Exempt Staff Council.

Prior to coming to Trinity, Davis served as the director of diversity and inclusion at the Associated Colleges of the South, a consortium of 16 liberal arts colleges and universities, supporting member institutions in advancing their diversity and inclusion goals on campus and in their communities. Before that role, she served for five years as the inaugural director of what now is known as the Africana Studies Program at Rhodes College. In addition to being a tenured faculty member at Rhodes, she also served for seven years as the associate dean of academic affairs, with responsibilities including accreditation, curriculum and program assessment, faculty evaluation and mentoring, and supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Davis has more than 20 years of experience helping institutions assess and build capacity to address social justice issues. As a clinical-community psychologist, she brings a strengths-based, collaborative, and action-oriented approach to her work. She is a member of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and of the Executive Board of Liberal Arts Diversity Officers. Davis received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. from Rhodes College.