Dr. Julie Corbett, who completes her EdD at American University this May, is president and founder of Corbett Education Consulting LLC. She is a leader and systems thinker who strives to positively impact the lives of children by improving the access to and the quality of the US public education system. Her work bridges education, democracy, and non-profit sectors. Having served as a locally-elected school board member, Corbett is passionate about mitigating barriers to community voice and empowering community members to participate in civic engagement. Her doctoral dissertation at American University is titled: “Seats of change: An examination of how equity-focused pipelines mitigate the disproportionate racial representation of school boards.”

Corbett has extensive experience with the school and district continuous improvement process, understands systemic reform and structural changes for improvement, and implementation of the federal school improvement requirements at the state and district levels, and education governance (school boards). She has led qualitative research projects, developed publications, facilitated professional learning networks and trainings, and has completed numerous promising practice and case study research projects on state education agencies, districts, charter management organizations, and schools. Corbett is the author of dozens of publications and has overseen and performed peer reviews of state, district, and school improvement plans.