Julie Schell

Point Scholar: 2003-2008

Teachers College, Columbia University
Ed.D., Higher Education

While pursuing her doctorate in higher education at Columbia, Julie conducted several research projects on LGBT issues and presented her scholarly work at venues across North America. She has given invited lectures on LGBT topics in higher education at Columbia University, Teachers College, and the Julliard School. Her paper, The Transgendered Professoriate: A New Frontier in Educational Research in the Public Interest, won a Scholar-Activist Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2006. Julie was also honored with an award for Outstanding Service to the Point Foundation Mentoring Program for her creation and leadership of that program from 2003-2007. Julie’s dissertation work was awarded the President’s Grant for Student Research in Diversity and the Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant at Teachers College. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the Mazur Group at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where she is researching innovative teaching and learning methods. She recently joined Point’s Regional Board of Trustees. Believing strongly that her own college education saved her life, Julie hopes to develop as many innovative pathways as possible for LGBT students to pursue with college dreams.
Julie resides in New York City with her wife Laura and their African Basenji.

This alumni bio was updated with information provided in Fall 2010.