Dr. Nora Devlin grew up in Pennsylvania, lived in NJ from 2011-2022 and in 2022 returned to Pennsylvania. In early 2023, Nora completed her Ph.D. in higher education in the Higher Education department at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Nora worked under the advisement of Dr. Barbara A. Lee studying higher education law. Her dissertation was a study of over 150 faculty free speech cases filed between 2006 and 2020. Nora is an expert on higher education law, especially faculty free speech and faculty discrimination cases. She is also a trained mediator and is a skilled resolver of conflicts. As an expert on conflict within academia, she is excited to find ways to apply her research and improve organizational culture by helping organizations learn to resolve conflict in kind and generous ways.

Nora has also served as an editorial assistant for two scholarly journals including the Journal of College and University Law under the editorship of Dr. Ray Solomon (2018-2020) and Dr. Barbara A. Lee (2020-Present). Follow Nora's work on Twitter @noraannedevlin, and @ https://noradevlin.com/