Generative AI: Chat With Real Humans About Emergent Issues

Andrea Stagg is Director of Consulting Services at Grand River Solutions. Previously she served as Deputy General Counsel at Barnard College, and Associate Counsel at the State University of New York. Andrea co-coordinated a working group that created SUNY’s sexual and interpersonal violence prevention and response policies, which formed the basis for New York Education Law Article 129B. She has advised federal and state legislators on best practices in campus safety and sexual harassment prevention, and served on a campus working group with prevention and response partners throughout New York state. In 2014, Andrea received the Commissioner’s Award from the State University Police. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors from Rutgers University and received her law degree from The George Washington University, where she was an intern in the counsel’s office. Andrea worked in federal higher education lobbying for Rutgers University before attending law school. 

Jack Bernard is Associate General Counsel at the University of Michigan. He has worked in the academy for over thirty years and has been with the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President and General Counsel since 1999. During the eleven years prior to this work, Jack had been an academic administrator and/or instructor at Macalester College, Saga Daigaku (Japan), and the University of Michigan. He teaches at the University of Michigan’s Schools of Law, Education, and Information, as well as at the Ford School of Public Policy. He is Chair Emeritus of the University of Michigan’s Council for Disability Concerns, where he served for over seventeen years. In 2009, Jack received the American Library Association’s “L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award,” as well as the First Decade Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys. At the University of Michigan, he was a 2014 Distinguished Diversity Leadership recipient and, in 2016 he received the Carol Hollenshead Award from Center for the Education of Women. He has also been a Spencer Fellow and a researcher at the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement. In 2022, Jack was named a Fellow of NACUA. He earned his J. D. from the University of Michigan Law School and Master’s in Higher Education from the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Jack studied neuroscience at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Angus MacDonald is Managing Counsel-IP, Investments & Innovation at the University of California System. He manages a team of lawyers focused on intellectual property, investments, corporate and equity transactions, and related subject matter. He joined the University of California’s Office of General Counsel in April 2013 as Senior Counsel in the intellectual property group. His practice primarily focuses on copyright and trademark matters. He is the most recent past chair of the California Lawyers Association’s copyright group. Before joining UC, Mr. MacDonald worked in-house at several technology companies in the Silicon Valley, including as the General Counsel of a digital music service. He began his legal career at the intellectual property firm, Townsend and Townsend and Crew (now known as Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton), where he became a partner. He obtained his undergraduate degrees in 1996 from UC San Diego and his law degree in 2000 from UC Davis, where he was the Senior Research Editor of the Law Review.