Julia Pothen is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Pace University, Dartmouth College, and Oxford University Keble College, and has taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Harvard College (where she earned the Leveson Memorial Teaching Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching) and for Teach for America, where she taught 7th Grade Literacy in the Bronx. Professor Pothen comes to us from legal practice where she served as a Special Education Attorney working with schools and families, following a period as both a Claims Investigator for the Maine Department of Education and a public Defender in New Hampshire.