Brianna L. Bates, Cpacc, Mpa, Jd Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Dynamic legal advisor specializing in academic compliance, tech product development, and government relations. Provides strategic, business-centric counsel to high-impact product pods—including Home, Authoring, Course Management, Assessments, Hands-On Learning, and Academic Integrity—to mitigate risk and ensure compliance for regulated offerings. Key areas of expertise:- Lead Counsel on Key Initiatives: Served as lead counsel for two top initiatives—Pathways, a curated learning journey program to enhance learner outcomes, and Course Builder, an AI-powered platform empowering educators to create and manage content at scale.- Compliance & Government Relations: Leads compliance and risk oversight, closely monitoring and supporting strategic shifts aligned with U.S. Department of Education guidance.- Deal Management: Manages complex transactions, including tool procurement, research collaborations, content sourcing, and sales.- Operational Transparency & External Counsel: Improves transparency with structured legal tracking (Jira) and manages external counsel to streamline legal processes.Growth Initiatives & Accessibility Compliance: Partners cross-functionally on commercialization strategies and owns accessibility compliance, enhancing inclusivity and regulatory adherence.- Regulated Industry Messaging & Sales Support: Advises marketing on compliant messaging for regulated offerings and supports sales in pitching regulated products.- Data Privacy & Continuous Learning: Evaluates data privacy considerations, advising and coordinating with Privacy Counsel on compliance needs, especially in AI and biometric contexts; actively engages in privacy training to stay current with evolving compliance and regulatory trends in edtech.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Identifies, and solves for, academic compliance-related concerns in content offerings. - Represents the company’s interests in increasingly frequent discussions with content partners and customers concerning accessibility-related issues. - Provides key leadership and support on academic compliance matters- Supports Product and Privacy work - Leads deals related to new content offerings- Selected for competitive Product Manager Rotation Program to serve as a PM for a quarter

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Member of the Legal and Compliance team at Coursera, a global platform connecting learners, educators, and institutions, providing world-class educational content that is affordable, accessible, and relevant. When I joined Coursera in 2017 we had 150+ international university and industry partners and 35M+ registered learners. In 2018 Coursera was featured in Forbes' 2018 list of Next Billion-Dollar Startups and had $464M in investment capital and a $2.5B valuation. Coursera is now a Delaware public benefit corporation and during our initial public offering the market valued Coursera at over $7B. Today, we have over 87M learners on our platform. - Represented Compliance on the core deal pitch team to source 12 academic degrees from 8 globally ranked universities - Core deal team compliance lead on the first wholly online Master’s degree from an Ivy League, The University of Pennsylvania- Expertise related to Government Relations, Public Policy, Title IV, FERPA, Accreditation, State Authorization, Program Review, Academic Compliance & SaaS Procurement, ADA Compliance, WCAG2.1 AA, GDPR, CCPA, Professional Licensure, FTC, and relevant auditing and other academic compliance issues on state, national and international levels as assigned. - Subject matter expert innovation advisor to content strategy, enterprise, teaching & learning, university and industry partnerships, marketing, product, engineering, and finance teams. - Developing in-house company-wide training on compliance topics and general higher education industry knowledge including credit hour calculations, articulation agreements, and other higher education practices. - Contract review and development of systems and processes to ensure procurement and creation of compliant product and platform offerings/features. - International regulatory and policy support for contract negotiations in the US, the UK, France, Russia, Colombia, and Australia.

Washington, Dc, Us

The CHEA Fellows Program provides senior level graduate students with experiences in the field of higher education accreditation, including recognition processes for accrediting organizations, policy development, nonprofit Board oversight and operations, communications, business and finance and government affairs. These content areas of experience are valuable to graduate students who are seeking professional opportunities in higher education leadership, in government and/or with nonprofit organizations. Additionally, the CHEA Fellows program provides selected applicants with exposure to personnel and influencers in higher education, federal government and international partners.

Albany, Ny, Us

The State University of New York System is the largest system of higher education in the country, serving more than 420,000 students in degree-granting programs, and 1.4M students total. The System includes diverse educational and research institutions, including three hospitals, a maritime college, a school of law, four medical schools, two dental schools, a college of optometry, and a DOE National Lab. SUNY also employs more than 91,000 faculty and staff statewide and connects more than 3 million alumni worldwide. The State University of New York Office of General Counsel, located in Albany, New York, offers law students the opportunity to intern during the summer semester. The General Counsel's Office handles legal and policy matters for the SUNY system, SUNY campuses, and Community Colleges operating under the program of the State University. Approximately 30 attorneys work collaboratively and individually on matters that range from contracts, copyright, and labor law to maritime law, immigration law, intellectual property, and environmental law. Interns work alongside attorneys on a variety of matters. Most of the internship involves legal research and writing, drafting memos and legal papers. Additional options include analysis of pending legislation, research and assistance with arbitrations and State Division of Human Rights proceedings, partnering with policy makers to develop system and campus policies and procedures, assisting in investigations, and participation in seminars, training and continuing legal education programs.

New York, Ny, Us

- Reported 80% FTE to the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Analytics & Graduate Affairs and 20% FTE to the Chief Digital Officer and Associate Vice President of IT - Provost Office liaison for Government Relations and Public Policy initiatives impacting EdTech growth and strategy - Responsible for drafting business cases for IT/PSO RFP’s related to, (1) identification of use cases, (2) business requirements, (3) project charters, and (4) scope of work and agreements for project phasing- Advised General Counsel on compliance and accreditation risks in university-wide contracts and affiliation agreements - Served as the liaison with New York State Board of Regents, U.S. Department of Education - Oversaw university-wide inventory of 1,200+ academic programs and led a three-year implementation of a web-based inventory, integrating numerous systems to maintain data and analytic reporting - Vice Chair of all accreditation and assessment initiatives

New York, Ny, Us

- Partnered as Subject Matter Expert with University Enterprise Initiatives Office and GovLab to create an AI data driven tool to navigate complicated regulatory compliance landscape - Hired and directly managed one project manager and 18 analysts for the duration of the project - Directly managed two full-time employees, providing performance, management, and mentorship - Served as the liaison with external regulatory bodies and internal offices including: General Counsel, Insurance & Risk, Institutional Research, Technology Services, Program Services, Athletic Compliance, Admissions, Communication & Media, Student Services, Academic Assessment, and 17 unique Dean Office’s - Planned and led university-wide strategic planning meetings for all Deans and leadership on State Authorization initiatives and requirements

New York, Ny, Us

My fellowship application included a proposed request for support to examine the Perceptions of Academic Freedom by Faculty and Administrators in the Czech Republic, a Post-Communist Nation.The Provost's Global Research Initiatives program supports research-related activities at a select number of NYU's Global sites. The program supports short- and long-term faculty and graduate student visits to the sites; runs dissertation workshops for doctoral students in the final stages of writing; provides funding for workshops, colloquia, and the like at the sites; and supports collaboration between NYU faculty in New York and NYU faculty at the sites and in Abu Dhabi and in Shanghai.

New York, Ny, Us

- Oversaw NYU’s 46 unique specialized accreditation team and cycles and served as the lead for all institutional accreditation work with MSCHE (NYU’s regional accreditor)- Completed accreditation streamline work for the merger of an Engineering College, including the creation of a strategic plan to eliminate duplication of academic degrees - Supported growth from zero to 39 wholly online degrees - Completed annual Compliance & Risk Report for the Board of Trustees - Served as the accreditation lead on the NYU Shanghai opening team

New York, Ny, Us

Project Summary: GP2020 is a United Nations Global partnership initiative to reach 120M women with family planning information and contraceptives by 2020. This project includes developing a way to implement data-driven target setting by creating a useful model to strategically plan to meet FP2020 goals for family planning initiatives. At the core, the goal is to ensure successful family planning efforts, which will ultimately increase economic health and GDP in participating African nations. This project is situated to approach data modeling from a rights-based perspective with a focus on quality of care and included research related to the possibility of introducing a new indicator that would address the unmet need for family planning of women living with HIV.

Washington, Dc, Us

The DEAC is an educational association and a nationally recognized accrediting agency. The Council was founded in 1926 to promote sound educational standards and ethical business practices within the correspondence field. The DEAC is approved by the U.S. Department of Education as the "nationally recognized accrediting agency" under terms of Public Law. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) also recognizes the Accrediting Commission.The DEAC Information and Accounts Specialist: - Attended 10+ institutional site visits, leading teams of 4-10 peer review auditors through regulatory evaluation procedures - Performed international contract and business standard compliance reviews - Curated and published weekly news round-up publication to inform 150 member institutions of relevant industry and policy activity - Advised interested U.S. and international educational institutions on accreditation processes and benefits - Managed and developed all online courses offered by DEAC on eCollege Platform

CNN: The Messages Project/EPIC- Aided in the design and execution of extensive surveys, data collection and data entry within SPSS system- Trained and supervised new researchers and traveled to prisons all over Virginia to interview participants - Maintained relationship with various school systems to interview adolescent participants and code responses to calculate survey design actions

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Mpa, Management And Policy, Specialization: International Policy And Management

Master'S Degree, Chinese Urbanization And Sustainability Policy And Planning

Bachelor Of Science, Biology And Psychology