About
The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team views “risk” as any issue that impacts the organization’s ability to meet its objectives, and we see “risk” as both an adverse impact and as an opportunity.
Meet the Team
Susan Parsons Ritter ’83
Chief of Staff, Deputy General Counsel and Risk Officer, Associate Secretary of the Corporation
- Email:
- sritter@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (802) 443-3289
- Office:
- Old Chapel 405
Matt Curran
Director of Business Services
- Email:
- matthewc@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (802) 443-5835
- Office:
- McKinley 103
Amber Lovely-Lee
Enterprise Risk Management Specialist
- Email:
- alovelylee@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (802) 443-5001
- Office:
- Old Chapel 403
Demitria Kirby
Associate Vice President of Safety
- Email:
- dkirby@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (802) 443-5201
- Office:
- 125 South Main Street 201
Jesse Stratton
Director of Environmental Health, Safety, & Compliance
- Email:
- jstratton@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (802) 443-3020
- Office:
- 422 South Main 102
Our goal is to educate and partner with members of the Middlebury community to ensure they have the means to effectively identify, assess, control, and monitor their risks. In doing so, Middlebury is able to manage its risk exposure while seeking new initiatives that encourage innovation.
The ERM team engages key senior leaders and the Board of Trustees to identify and rank institution-wide risk. However, successful risk management at Middlebury also includes support at the departmental level, where risk is managed on a day-to-day basis. For this reason, department managers play a critical role in Enterprise Risk Management.