Deputy to the CEO
Community College of DC
Ms. Julie J. Johnson serves as the deputy director of Community College of the District of Columbia, applying extensive expertise in education policy, particularly in ensuring educational access and opportunity for low-income students and leveraging the capacity of community colleges to help them reach their higher education goals. Having provided research support for the Community College as a consultant, she now manages the detailed planning process that will bring it to fruition.
She previously served as director of programs for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, which advises Congress on financial aid policy for low-income students. There she led a one-year community college initiative on improving the community college pathway to a bachelor’s degree and communicated and collaborated with higher education researchers, academics, administrators, policymakers, associations, congressional staff, and the press at a national level.
Ms. Johnson is active in numerous D.C. organizations dedicated to advancing educational opportunity, including the D.C. Research Consortium on College Access and Success, D.C. Double the Numbers, and the Higher Education Group of Washington. For many years she has served as a youth mentor and counselor, and she is a former teacher as well. She received a master’s degree in higher education from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Azusa Pacific University.
