Julie Allen

Julie is director of strategy and communications at EdRedesign where she focuses on strategy, communications, and development. Most recently, Julie was senior advisor at EdRedesign from January 2022 to February 2023. Previously, Julie was a Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative 2020 fellow and 2021 senior fellow.  Prior to her fellowship, she had a distinguished career in corporate law, focusing on capital markets, public company M&A transactions, and boardroom governance and counsel. Most recently, she was a senior partner at Proskauer Rose, where, in addition to her practice, her management roles included practice group leadership, new business intake, and risk management. She served as senior editor-education for the Harvard ALI Social Impact Review from 2021 through 2023. In addition, Julie is a member of the board of directors of Read Ahead (which she chaired from 2019 through 2023), a reading-based mentoring organization serving NYC public elementary school children, for which she has served as a volunteer reading mentor for over a decade. Julie is also a member of the board of The Trevor Project, the largest suicide prevention and mental health organization serving LGBTQ+ youth in the U.S. and Mexico. She also served as a member of the advisory board of the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy from 2021 through 2023.