Lin-Chi Wang

advisor & investigator

Background

Lin-Chi serves as a professional Title IX Advisor and Investigator. She utilizes her experiences to help individuals, schools, and workplaces bridge civil rights’ compliance with humane approaches to achieve outcomes that are not just fair and equitable, but that also promote harm reduction and healing, with trauma-informed and culturally appropriate training and thinking. Lin-Chi brings a depth of experience to anti-discrimination and sexual harassment work.

Prior to founding Wang Law, LLC and serving as an independent advisor and investigator, Lin-Chi served as the Director of Equity& Title IX Coordinator and Associate Dean of Students at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. In that role, she oversaw response and investigation of all institutional reports and complaints of identity-based discrimination and harassment, sexual misconduct, intimate partner violence, stalking, and retaliatory harassment as prohibited by college policies. She also served as the primary institutional investigator for such complaints. Prior to Muhlenberg College, Lin-Chi served as an institutional civil rights investigator for Michigan State University, conducting sensitive and high-profile internal investigations. Before her career in higher education, Lin-Chi practiced as an attorney at a labor and employment law firm in Michigan. In her various positions, Lin-Chi has developed a deep understanding of how to approach anti-discrimination and sexual harassment work effectively within the current regulatory and compliance structure. She believes in doing the work in a trauma-informed and culturally appropriate manner, with humanity, empathy, compassion, and harm reduction at the forefront, while also keeping bias and fairness in check.

Trainings

• Sexual Violence and LGBTQ Communities Training; Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)

Education

• J.D., Michigan State University College of Law
• M.M., University of Florida
• B.M., University of Michigan

Professional Associations

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan

Speaking Engagements

• Emergency Removal in the K-12 Environment (March 2022), Title IX Solutions, LLC
• Investigative Report Writing (October 2021), Title IX Solutions, LLC