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Julie Dobrow

Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tufts University; Senior Fellow, Media & Civic Engagement, Tisch College of Civic Life

Dr. Julie Dobrow, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, a Senior Lecturer in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, a Senior Fellow at the Tisch College of Civic Life and has a faculty appointment in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts Medical School. She teaches classes on children and media issues and does research on portrayals of race, gender, ethnicity and age in children's media. A frequent speaker on media literacy to parent and educational groups, Dobrow is also the mother of four children.