Title IX & Civil Rights Expert Witness

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Sandra (“Sandi”) Aboy, Ph.D. (formerly Hodgin), is a nationally recognized Title IX and civil rights compliance expert witness with more than 20 years of experience analyzing institutional response systems, sexual misconduct matters, discrimination complaints, and higher education compliance practices. Holding dual Ph.D.s in Education and Political Science/Public Policy, Dr. Sandi combines academic research, institutional practice, and litigation consulting experience to assist attorneys, educational institutions, and organizations navigating complex civil rights matters. Dr. Sandi is the Founder and CEO of Title IX Consulting Group (T9CG), a multidisciplinary civil rights compliance firm supporting educational institutions nationwide through expert witness analysis, institutional audits, investigations, policy development, compliance reviews, prevention programming, and strategic consulting. She is certified in all major Title IX adjudication roles, including investigator, hearing officer, mediator, informal resolution facilitator, and Title IX coordinator. Her expertise includes Title IX, Title VI, Clery Act compliance, institutional response systems, trauma-informed practices, due process analysis, campus investigations, policy evaluation, retaliation analysis, timeline reconstruction, prevention programming, and organizational compliance infrastructure. Dr. Sandi is frequently consulted on matters involving institutional notice, deliberate indifference, grievance procedures, supportive measures, investigative practices, hearing processes, documentation concerns, and broader civil rights compliance obligations. For nearly a decade, Dr. Sandi has served as a Title IX expert witness and consultant in litigation involving schools, colleges, universities, and organizational response systems. Her work includes reviewing institutional policies, investigative files, hearing records, timelines, communications, and compliance structures to assess consistency with federal regulations, institutional obligations, and accepted professional practices. She has supported both plaintiff and defense counsel in matters involving sexual misconduct, harassment, retaliation, discrimination, and institutional compliance failures. Notably, Dr. Sandi served as a Title IX consultant supporting plaintiffs in the landmark Liberty University litigation, which ultimately resulted in a $14 million federal fine imposed in 2024 related to Title IX and Clery Act compliance failures. Throughout her career, Dr. Sandi has held multiple institutional leadership positions. She served as the first Title IX Compliance Analyst at Claremont Graduate University, where she helped develop consortium-wide training and policy initiatives. At Colorado State University, she served as Assistant Director of Title IX Compliance, supporting investigations, policy implementation, and campus-wide prevention efforts. She also served for five years as the Title IX Coordinator for California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM), where she built and oversaw the institution’s Title IX infrastructure, including investigations, policy implementation, training systems, accommodations processes, and Clery coordination. Dr. Sandi is widely recognized for her balanced, trauma-informed, and analytically rigorous approach to institutional compliance review, with expertise focused on Title IX, Title VI, Clery Act compliance, institutional response systems, retaliation analysis, investigative practices, hearing procedures, timeline reconstruction, and organizational accountability. Today, through Title IX Consulting Group, Dr. Sandi leads a growing national team of investigators, attorneys, prevention specialists, and compliance professionals dedicated to helping institutions strengthen civil rights systems, improve prevention efforts, and build safer, more accountable educational environments.