Julie Posselt is an associate professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Posselt’s scholarship examines organizational behavior affecting access to and equity in in graduate & professional education, especially in STEM disciplines. She is PI and Director of the California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education, and Co-PI and Director of the Research Hub for the NSF-INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network. She is author of two books: Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016), and received the early career award for the American Educational Research Association and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.