Office of Compliance & Integrity

Christine Buswell joined the Office of Compliance & Integrity in September 2020. Chris came to higher education in 2009 via UW-Platteville, after leaving a 20+ year career with the County of Riverside in California. Her career included positions with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and County Human Resources. Chris was part of the centralized pool of investigators in UW-Shared Services and has conducted multiple investigations for various campuses. Prior to joining UW System Chris was the Assistant Director of Human Resources for UW-Platteville. With a focus on Employee Relations, Chris has conducted internal investigations, worked with managers through the discipline process, mediated disputes, and trained employees on how to have respectful productive conversations. She has over 30 years of government experience at the County and State level. Chris has received certification in Title IX Investigations from D. Stafford and Associates, Internal Investigations from HRcertifications and is a certified Vital Smarts Crucial Conversations trainer. Chris received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and her Master of Science in Public Administration from California Baptist University.

In Christine’s spare time she enjoys spending as much time as she can with her beautiful new granddaughter.

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 2 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 1 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.

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.

Amanda Reese joined the Office of Compliance & Integrity in March 2022. Prior to joining the UW System, Amanda worked for the United States Property and Fiscal Office of Wisconsin as the Administrative Assistant to the Deputy Property & Fiscal Officer and the Property & Fiscal Officer. Before that, Amanda was the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Curriculum & Instruction. Amanda received her B.S. in Business Administration from Liberty University.

Kristina Williston joined the Office of Compliance & Integrity in July 2019. Previously, Kristina worked for UW Colleges & UW-Extension from 2016 to 2019 in the Office of Human Resources and most recently on the Organizational Development team. Kristina received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota and completed a Human Resources Certificate from Madison College.