Compliance & Integrity

Prenicia Clifton joined the Office of Compliance & Integrity in September 2020. Prenicia is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has nearly two decades of precollege and youth programming experience under her belt. Prenicia has always had a love for camp and enriching the lives of youth. At the age of 21, Prenicia made a pledge to make a difference in the lives of 10,000 kids. She achieved this goal quite easily through programming and fundraising and has now changed that goal to a million. So how does one affect the lives of one million children? Well Prenicia believes that this can be done at the policy and access level which led her to become a youth protection specialist and advocate.

Prenicia is a certified Praesidium Youth Protection Guardian and trained in youth behavior/assessments and Youth Mental Health First Aid. Her experiences in program development abroad has given her strengths in youth protection, program development and implementation, as well as best practices for addressing youth protection polices at the institutional level. Currently, Prenicia is a member of the Higher Education Prevention Network serving on the membership committee as well a chair on the Big Ten Youth Policy Consortium. One of her major initiatives within the Big Ten Policy Consortium is “The Architecture of Compliance within Youth Programming in Higher Ed” a research document based on youth programming nationwide standards, historical gaps, and the translation of typical “camp” scenarios and vocabulary into higher education open campus settings.

Attorney Claire Edwards completed her undergraduate degree at the State University of New York - Albany in Criminal Justice and Sociology. She earned her Juris Doctor from Wisconsin Law School in 2018. Since then, she has practiced as a criminal defense attorney for the Wisconsin State Public Defender's Office. In that role, she represented both adult and juvenile clients in a variety of different cases and proceedings and conducted hundreds of investigations. Claire's caseload addressed issues related to sexual assault, discrimination, and domestic violence. Claire joined the Office of Compliance & Integrity in January 2023.

Haley Hintz graduated from UW-Whitewater with a B.A. in Psychology and Criminology. Haley previously worked for the State Public Defender System as an Investigator in Colorado and Wisconsin for 6 years. In that role Haley conducted and participated in hundreds of investigations on a variety of subject matters such as sexual misconduct, juvenile mitigation, and administrative hearings. Haley joined the Office of Compliance & Integrity in spring 2023.

Katie Patten joined UW System’s Office of General Counsel in April 2018 and became a member of the Office of Compliance & Integrity when it was formed in 2019. Katie graduated from UW Madison in 2011 with a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies. She also completed a Post Baccalaureate Paralegal Degree from Madison Area Technical College in 2013. Katie previously worked for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 2013 to 2018, the last three years as the agency’s lead coordinator on public records issues; developing new policies, procedures, and tracking mechanisms for public records requests.