Sheila Edwards Lange
Ed.D. Candidate

Sheila is currently a doctoral candidate in higher education (Educational Leadership and Policy Studies), and is employed full-time as the Associate Director for Research in the Center for Workforce Development at the University of Washington.

Sheila was recently selected for an AERA-sponsored mentoring program for young scholars interested in gender research, and I am the recipient of the College of Education’s Women in Higher Education Leadership Scholarship. She is interested in conducting gender research following graduate school, as a faculty member or in an administrative position.

Sheila has worked in higher education administration for many years, in both academic and student affairs. She started her career in housing and student development at the University of California, Irvine. Since then, she has worked in academic affairs at the University of Washington, in education and planning at the Seattle Community Colleges, and as special assistant to the president at Western Washington University.

Sheila earned a Bachelor's degree in Social Ecology from theUniversity of California, Irvine and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Evans School for Public Affairs at the University of Washington.