July 24, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
I’m pleased to announce Stacy Giwa – our vice president of culture, ethics, and compliance, and chief compliance officer – has graciously agreed to serve as interim senior vice president of human resources beginning on October 1, 2024.
Stacy is a highly skilled leader in the area of human resources, with a focus on client services, employee engagement, and employee relations; ethics and compliance; culture; and risk assessment; and is well-known throughout the university for her exceptional work leading the USC Culture Journey. Her broad experience will provide continuity as we transition our Human Resources, Equity, and Compliance (HREC) operations.
Stacy will lead USC’s Human Resources, Equity, and Compliance division, including the Office of Culture, Ethics, and Compliance; the Office for Equity, Equal Opportunity, and Title IX; University Human Resources; and the Office of Professionalism and Ethics.
She brings extensive expertise and a record of success to her new responsibilities. Since joining USC in 2018, Stacy has overseen the university’s overarching compliance program, working with experts across USC in key areas that include privacy, research compliance, export, conflict of interest, and ADA compliance. As a member of the HREC Leadership Team, she also actively engages in strategy discussions and program implementation, as well as serving on HREC-led working groups, including the Policy Community Advisory Committee and as co-chair of the Employee Relations Advisory Group.
Stacy is the co-chair of the Working Group on University Culture and the chair of the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. Under her leadership, we recently consolidated university policies and revamped our policy website. It is now a one-stop shop that provides easy access and guidance to our entire community. She also has been overseeing the Office of Inclusion and Diversity. This fall, she will be working with the provost to launch a search for the chief inclusion and diversity officer.
Prior to USC, Stacy was a principal at Ernst & Young in the forensics and integrity services practice, where she worked extensively with clients across diverse industries on the design, development, and assessment of comprehensive, risk-based compliance and ethics programs. She started her career as a labor and employment attorney at Southern California Edison.
Stacy holds a Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University and a Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University, and is an active member of the California State Bar Association and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.
Please join me in thanking Stacy for taking on this essential role at USC, and wishing Felicia Washington well as she brings her transformational leadership to the University of Pennsylvania.
Sincerely,
Carol L. Folt
President
Robert C. Packard President’s Chair