Resume

• 2012

  Co-Director

  SIGNAL - International Literacy Association Special Interest Group on Young Adult Literature

  International Literacy Association Rural Diversity Committee

  International Literacy Association Adolescent and Adult Literacy Committee

  40 Under 40

  Award recognizing young alumni that are leading the way in business

  leadership

  community

  educational and/or philanthropic endeavors. The forty are chosen by a selection committee based on their professional expertise and achievements

  as well as dedication to charitable and community initiatives.

  Georgia Southern University

  Conference on English Leadership Emerging Leaders Fellowship

  National Council of Teachers of English

  2016 International Literacy Association Outstanding Dissertation Award Finalist

  This is an award given annually for a dissertation completed in reading or literacy. Each study is assessed in the light of methodological approach

  the scholarly qualification of its report

  and its significant contributions to knowledge within the reading field. 10 finalists are chosen internationally each year.

  International Literacy Association

  2015 Presidential Management Fellow

  United States Office of Personnel Management

• 2008

  Community Impact Columbia University

  U.S. Senate Office of Al Franken

  Metter

  Georgia

  Teacher

  Department of English

  Metter High School

  Statesboro

  Georgia

  Taught 5 sections of Composition I and II per semester.

  Assistant Professor of Writing and Linguistics

  Georgia Southern University

  New York

  NY

  Taught Math

  Science

  Social Studies and Language Arts to adult English Learners seeking a General Education Diploma (High School equivalency)

  Adult GED Preparation and Job Readiness Program Teacher

  Community Impact Columbia University

  Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

  Curriculum and Teaching

  Literacy

  Columbia University Teachers College

  National Board Teaching Certification - Adolescence and Young Adulthood ELA

  Expires 2028

  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

• 2005

  Marietta High School

  Georgia Southern University

  Metter High School

  U.S. Department of Education

  Executive Office of the President

  The White House

  Office of Management and Budget

  Coastal Savannah Writing Project

  USAID

  Marietta

  GA

  National Board Certified Teacher

  Teacher

  Department of English

  Marietta High School

  I work on the Data Governance team in the Office of the Chief Data Officer. In this role

  I:\nManage ED's new open data platform at data.ed.gov

  making ED's data public and machine-readable by default while ensuring rigorous protections for privacy and security where required. \nCollaborate with senior-level technical experts to write specifications

  requirements and statements of work (SOWs) for information technology (IT) hardware and/or software

  data analytics services

  and maintenance in multi-year IT contracts.\nDevelop and implement procedures

  tools

  templates

  activities

  and infrastructure to facilitate project management

  data quality

  and governance.\nPrepare trade-off analyses and business cases to justify IT and data analytics solutions and define systems scope and objectives.\nPerform administrative and technical duties necessary for accomplishing the work of the unit.\nDesign and oversee systems testing.

  Education Research Analyst

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  U.S. Department of Education

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Program Examiner

  Education Branch

  Executive Office of the President

  The White House

  Office of Management and Budget

  Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  Data Scientist

  USAID

  Lecturer in Languages

  Literature and Philosophy

  Savannah

  Georgia Area

  Armstrong State University

  Designed and presented technology-based ELA workshops for K-12 teachers.

  Technology Director

  Savannah

  Georgia Area

  Coastal Savannah Writing Project

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Education Policy Fellow

  U.S. Senate Office of Al Franken

• 826DC

  Education Task Force Co-Chair

  The WGR Task Forces focus on creating educational programming and networking opportunities around timely federal and state policy issues and functional training for professional development. Types of events include periodic briefings

  policy roundtables

  expert panel discussions

  and brown bag luncheons with policymakers and other government affairs professionals.

  Women in Government Relations

  Leadership Program Director

  Designed and led leadership development program for young professionals across several federal agencies.

  Young Government Leaders

  Presentations

  Social Media

  Distance Learning

  Grant Writing

  Data analysis

  Staff Development

  Instructional Design

  Teacher Training

  Policy analysis

  Curriculum Development

  Research

  Professional Development

  Curriculum Design

  Public Speaking

  Team Leadership

  Higher Education

  Event Management

  Teaching

  Faculty Development

  Educational Technology

  Writing in Virtual Worlds: Scratch Programming as Multimodal Composing Practice in the Language Arts Classroom in Bridging Literacies with Videogames

  H.R. Gerber & S.S. Abrams (Eds.)

  Writing in Virtual Worlds: Scratch Programming as Multimodal Composing Practice in the Language Arts Classroom in Bridging Literacies with Videogames

  H.R. Gerber & S.S. Abrams (Eds.)

  This fourteen-month study examined the phone-based composing practice of three adolescents. Given the centrality of mobile phones to youth culture

  the researcher sought to create a description of the participants’ composing practices with these devices. Focal participants were users of Twitter and Instagram

  two social media platforms that are usually accessed by way of applications (mobile phone software). A Bakhtinian theoretical framework was used to locate composing as a social act involving relationships among multivocal texts and authors and audiences. Findings indicate that much of the participants’ literacy engagement was spontaneous

  in the moment

  reactive

  and emergent. Another finding was that audience feedback informed text production. Finally

  the practice of digital curation (appropriating others’ texts) was central to online phone-based composing practice.

  Adolescents' Dialogic Composing with Mobile Phones (In press).

  Loud Silence: Using Young Adult Literature to Foster a Discourse of Antihomophobia

  Loud Silence: Using Young Adult Literature to Foster a Discourse of Antihomophobia

  Seeing Again with New Media: Using Free WWW Tools to Teach Students Re-Vision

  Urban Fiction in the Classroom

  This book provides a deeper understanding of the phone-based composing practices of youth and their implications for literacy learning. In the United States

  smartphone use among teens is nearly universal

  yet many youth who are avid digital composers still struggle with formal schooled literacy. The widespread and rapid embrace of smartphones by youth from all income levels has had a substantial impact on the way that young people approach the act of composing

  yet to date

  little to no work has explored digital photography and text curation through popular apps like Twitter and Instagram and their impact on literacy

  including formal schooled literacy. As more schools are moving to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) models and lifting classroom bans on cellphones

  classroom teachers need information about the affordances of phones for formal literacy learning

  which this book provides.\n

  Adolescents' New Literacies with and through Mobile Phones

  This book provides a deeper understanding of the phone-based composing practices of youth and their implications for literacy learning. In the United States

  smartphone use among teens is nearly universal

  yet many adolescents who are avid digital composers still struggle with formal schooled literacy. The widespread and rapid embrace of smartphones by youth from all income levels has had a substantial impact on the way that young people approach the act of composing

  yet to date

  little-to-no work has explored digital photography and text curation–through popular apps like Twitter and Instagram–and their impact on literacy

  including formal schooled literacy. This book examines these developing aspects of mobile technology and education and

  as more schools move to Bring Your Own Device models and lift classroom bans on cellphones

  provides classroom teachers with the needed information about the affordances of phones for formal literacy learning.

  Adolescents' New Literacies with and through Mobile Phones (Under contract)

  Warner

  Julie