Kristin Couch is the Associate Director of Title IX & Compliance at Spelman College.
The primary role of the Associate Director is to facilitate educating the campus community by designing, planning, executing, and tracking Title IX training to assist with creating a space free of sex and gender-based discrimination. The Associate Director will oversee support for community members initiating sex and gender-based discrimination reports. In addition, this Associate Director serves as a Deputy Title IX Coordinator, assisting the Director to ensure institutional compliance with all relevant campus policies and procedures, federal and state statutes, regulations, and case law requiring the prompt, fair, and impartial resolution of all reports pursuant to relevant university policies and civil rights laws, including Title IX and VAWA, Clery and the Campus SaVE Act.
Kristin is an Agnes Scott College alumna with a master’s in Social Work from the University of Georgia. After working with the Women's Resource Center to Ending Domestic Violence in Dekalb, she worked for Partnership Against Domestic Violence in Fulton. She currently is the Associate Director in the Title IX & Compliance Office. Outside of Spelman, Kristin is an Advisory Board member for the Survivors Home Initiative with United Way of Greater Atlanta’s Regional Commission on Homelessness, co-Chairs the Fulton County Family Violence Task Force, and is a State Expert Committee member with the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC). In totality, Kristin has worked in the gender-based violence field for 10 years.