Biography

Julie Maxwell-Jolly began her career in education teaching English learner and immigrant students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has a variety of additional education experience including as a Lecturer at UC Davis, supervisor of student teachers at CSU Sacramento, community college liaison for migrant education, and working with legal organizations to design and conduct workshops for parents of EL and immigrant students. She has designed, coordinated, participated in, and written on research in several areas related to high quality and equitable education for culturally and linguistically diverse students including: secondary schooling for these students, preparing teachers for diversity, the effects of education language policy in California, and Latino persistence in community college. She has also served as the coordinator of the Linguistic Minority Research Institute Education Policy Center at UC Davis for several years. She holds a PhD in education from UC Davis with a focus on education policy affecting culturally and linguistically diverse students.