Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University 

Moderator:

Martin S. Flaherty ’81
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Panelists:     

Jerry Blakemore ’76
Vice Chancellor for Institutional Integrity and General Counsel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Alysa Christmas Rollock ’81
Vice President for Ethics and Compliance, Purdue University

Jennifer Rexford ’91
Provost and Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering

Susan Ridgely ’96
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MODERATOR

Martin S. Flaherty ’81
Martin Flaherty is a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and the Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law at Fordham Law School, where he co-founded the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. He also teaches at Columbia Law School and Barnard College, and has held academic positions in Beijing, Seoul and Belfast. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge John Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. A graduate of Princeton (A.B., summa cum laude), Yale (M.A., M.Phil.) and Columbia Law School, Flaherty has led human rights missions worldwide. He is president of the American Association of the International Commission of Jurists, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adviser to the United Nations General Assembly.

PANELISTS

Jerry Blakemore ’76
Jerry Blakemore has more than 30 years of experience in higher education administration and law. In his current role, he oversees all legal, regulatory and compliance matters for UNC Greensboro and offers guidance to the board of trustees, the chancellor and other university administrators on a wide range of issues. Blakemore earned his B.A. in political science at Princeton and later graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. While at Princeton, he served as secretary of the undergraduate assembly and vice chair of the Third World Center governance board. Additionally, Blakemore has held the position of chair of the board of directors for the National Association of College and University Attorneys, a professional organization with more than 5,000 attorney representatives.

Alysa Christmas Rollock ’81
Alysa Christmas Rollock ’81 is Purdue University’s vice president for ethics and compliance. In that role, she serves as the University’s chief ethics and compliance officer, as well as its equal opportunity officer. In her position, she supervises the University’s Office for Civil Rights and its Policy Office and serves as special legal counsel upon appointment. Rollock oversees the University’s efforts to communicate to all faculty, staff, students and contractors Purdue’s commitment to freedom of expression, and the rights and responsibilities associated with it, including serving as a presenter in the University’s annual new student orientation program on freedom of expression. Before joining Purdue, she was an associate professor of law at Indiana University-Bloomington, where her research and teaching were concentrated in the areas of corporate law and finance, securities regulation and professional responsibility. A history major at Princeton, Rollock earned her law degree from Yale University. 

Jennifer Rexford ’91
Jennifer Rexford is the provost, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University.  She received her B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton, and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan. Before joining Princeton in 2005, Rexford worked for eight years at AT&T Labs-Research. Her research focuses on computer networking with the goal of making future networks worthy of the trust society increasingly places in them. She is co-author of the books “Web Protocols and Practice” (2001) and “The Real Internet Architecture: Past, Present, and Future Evolution” (2024) and co-editor of “She’s an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae Reflect” (1993). Rexford is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.

Susan Ridgely ’96
Susan Ridgely, a professor of religious studies, uses ethnographic case studies to integrate the category of age into the analytic triad of race, class and gender in the study of American religious traditions and American culture more broadly. Her most recent book is “One True Church: An American Story of Race, Family, and Religion” (2026). She is also the author of “Practicing What the Doctor Preached: At Home with Focus on the Family” (2016) and “When I was a Child: Children’s Interpretations of First Communion” (2005), as well as editor of “The Study of Children in Religions: A Methods Handbook” (2011) and “The Bloomsbury Reader in Childhood and Religion” (2017). In 2026-27, she will serve as interim director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin.