Charlotte Powley
In her role as Assistant Director of Research for ENACT, Charlotte Powley teaches ENACT-related courses at Brandeis and supports ENACT research.
Charlotte began her career as a New York City public high school teacher and completed her Master's in Education from Hunter College. Her dedication to learning more about students' overall health and well being led her to pursue her Master’s in Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she completed her degree with a specialty in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Charlotte completed her PhD in Social Policy in 2020 at the Heller School for Policy and Research, where her doctoral work focused on menstrual management and students’ experiences of menstruation in US public schools. While at Heller, Charlotte supported ENACT research initiatives, served as a teaching assistant for the Brandeis ENACT course in 2020 and 2021, served as a Posse mentor, and worked at the Brandeis Center for Teaching and Learning. From 2021 to 2023, Charlotte was an Assistant Teaching Professor at Simmons University in their Public Health Department.
Charlotte teaches the ENACT course "Gender, Justice, and Legislation" (LGLS 118B) as well as "Legislation for Change: Policy Research and Writing" (LGLS121A).