Deborah Redshaw

Civil Rights Program Specialist

In October 2025, Deborah began serving as the Civil Rights Program Specialist for the Office for Inclusion and Civil Rights (OICR). In this role, Deborah is working on projects and programs in all civil rights compliance areas, including but not limited to, managing compliance-focused committees, implementation of educational initiatives, coordinating OICR’s participation in engagement and awareness programs, organizing and monitoring required staff training, and developing and communicating informational materials.

Deborah joined OIE in 2009 and previously served as the Title IX Program Specialist, Budget Director, and Budget Specialist. In her role as Title IX Program Specialist, Deborah assisted the Title IX Coordinator by working collaboratively with on and off-campus partners on sexual harassment and sexual violence prevention and education efforts to ensure UConn’s commitment to creating and maintaining a campus environment free from all forms of sexual violence, harassment, exploitation, and intimidation. In her pervious budget roles, Deborah provided financial leadership and represented OIE to University offices and administration. She created OIE’s annual budget for UConn and UConn Health, managed all financial matters, created and monitored office policies and procedures, and provided guidance and oversight to OIE staff when performing work with financial impact.

Prior to joining the University, Deborah spent nine years at the Connecticut State University System Office and was the Supervisor of the Operations Support Unit in the Information Technology (IT) Department.  This team was responsible for budgeting, purchasing, accounting, and contract review within IT.  In this role, she worked closely with the System’s finance department and each of the universities’ (Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University and Western Connecticut State University) IT departments.