Dr. Julie L. Gafney

Associate Vice President for Strategic Mission Initiatives/Executive Director for The Center for Community Engaged Learning, Co-leader of the Thriving Communities Grantmaker Project and is the Principal Investigator (PI) for Region 2.

She holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from Tufts University, an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. She comes to Fordham after spending nearly a decade teaching and working on student and faculty initiatives within the CUNY system, as well as experience working on public policy for Governor Andrew Cuomo. She also serves as an external evaluator on a number of NSF (National Science Foundation) and NIH (National Institutes of Health) grants supporting student support initiatives among underrepresented undergraduate student populations.