Julie Corbett, President and Founder of Corbett Education Consulting LLC, specializes in school, district, and state education agency transformation with clients throughout the country. She works with school management organizations, districts, school boards, state education agencies, and other non-profit organizations on a variety of education-transformation-related projects. She is passionate about civic engagement, effective education governance (school boards), and racial justice.
She was the project lead for the National Comprehensive Center's Systemic Technical Assistance Team (STAT). She's also acted as a Peer Reviewer for USED's Race to the Top District competition, was a member of USED's Race to the Top Reform Support Network, was the advisor for the School and District Improvement state collaborative (SDI SCASS) with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and was a strategic partner and a member of the leadership team for the Center on School Turnaround.
Before launching her own education consulting company in 2010, Corbett worked at Mass Insight Education & Research Institute, The Rodel Foundation of Delaware, and she completed a year of service with Americorps VISTA and the Delaware Mentoring Council program. Corbett served as a member of the Norwalk Public Schools Board of Education (2017-19), leads civic engagement work in her town, and serves on the Board of Directors of Norwalk ACTS.
Corbett was a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Global Education Policy Fellowship Program (IEL-GEPFP) in 2013-14 and was a Fellow in Northeastern University’s 2008 EPFP cohort. Corbett is currently enrolled in the Ed.D program in education policy and leadership at American University. She has an M.P.A from the University of Delaware and a B.A. from Denison University. Corbett and her husband live in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with their two young sons.
