Emily Schultz, education policy director for the state of Alabama, will address education students and area educators at Â鶹¹û¶³ Tuesday, Jan. 31.
The event, sponsored by Â鶹¹û¶³’s Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education, will be at 5:30 p.m. in Wright Center Concert Hall. The public is invited.
Schultz, a Birmingham native, was appointed to the newly created post by Alabama governor Robert Bentley in November.
Previously, Schultz worked under the chancellor of Washington, D.C., public schools during a time when that school system saw many changes. More recently, she was a consultant in Rhode Island, where her consulting group helped restructure a failing school.
In her new post in Alabama, Schultz will counsel the governor in education matters and be a liaison to K-12, post-secondary and higher education. During her Â鶹¹û¶³ talk, she will discuss her new role, outline the governor’s education agenda and answer questions from the audience.
Schultz, who holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Carleton College in Minnesota, taught for two years in Atlanta, Ga., public schools through Teach for America. She earned a master’s degree in education with an emphasis in public policy and organizational theory from Stanford University in California in 2008.