About Us 

Our mission: Working together with college and university communities to create safer campuses. When institutions of higher education seek guidance on campus safety regulation, they turn to Clery Center. 

We are a national nonprofit dedicated to helping college and university officials meet the standards of the Jeanne Clery Act. By equipping professionals with the training and resources they need to understand compliance requirements, we strive to make campus safety a universal reality.

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team

Jessica Mertz

Jessica Mertz
Executive Director

  

Christine Arnold

Christine Arnold
Senior Director of
Operations & Finance

 

Kerry Barrett

Kerry Barrett
Senior Director of
Strategic Engagement
 

Abigail Boyer

Abigail Boyer
Associate Executive
Director

    

Keisha Coleman

Keisha Coleman
Assistant Director
of Programs

    

 Cecilia Dockery

Cecilia Dockery
Assistant Director
of Programs
 

 Laura Egan

Laura Egan
Senior Director
of Programs

    

 Amy Guthrie

Amy Guthrie
Director of
Information Technology

    

 Erin Hess

Erin Hess
Administrative
Assistant
 

 Paul Hinkle

Paul Hinkle
Assistant Director
of Programs

    

Cheryl Levy

Cheryl Levy
Program
Coordinator

    

Kristen Sweeney

Kristen Sweeney
Director of 
Communications

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BOARD

Constance Clery

Constance B. Clery
Co-founder &
Chairwoman Emerita

  

Sheilah Vance

Sheilah D. Vance, Esq.
Chairperson

  

 Andrew Cagnetta

Andrew J. Cagnetta, Jr.
Vice-Chairperson

Raquel Bergen

Raquel Kennedy
Bergen, Ph.D.

  

 Roger Carolin

Roger Carolin

  

 

Kevin Connors

Kevin Connors

 Gary DeVercelly

Gary DeVercelly

  

 Julie DeVercelly

Julie G. DeVercelly

  

 Pearl Kim

Pearl Kim

Beth Riley

Beth Riley, M.D.

  

 Maureen Rush

Maureen S. Rush

  

Anne Seymour

Anne Seymour

Mary Swanson

Mary Swanson
Chairwoman Emerita

      

 

 

Emeritus Members
Ben Clery
Frederick Whittemore

In Memory
Frank Carrington, Esq.
Thomas B. MacCabe, Jr.