Alumni Profiles

Julie Mendoza, Ed.D.'03, Higher Education

Educational equity in public schools and access to higher education have been central concerns through Julie Mendoza's career. After graduating from HGSE, she assumed a research post as the Co-Director of the California Opportunity Indicators Project for the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD) and concurrently held a postdoctoral position at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Science at UCLA. She presently serves as an Education Advisor for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and is Chair of his Healthy Kid's Subcommittee. Julie's dissertation, Mathematics Course-Taking and the SAT Score Gap: A Case Study of 151 Los Angeles County Public High Schools (17KB pdf), was supervised by Professors Gary Orfield, committee chair, Richard Murnane and John Willett.