Dr. Juliana Mosley considers herself an “educator through and through.”
Her career began in the Houston Independent School District, where she worked as a high school teacher, while juggling teaching night classes at a local community college.
Intending on eventually becoming a principal, Mosley went back to school to earn a doctorate at Miami University.
There, while working for the dean of the graduate school as well as a teaching assistant, she became interested in a career in higher education.
Mosley’s first higher ed position was serving as an executive assistant to the president of Kentucky State University. However, after the president stepped down a year later, she also left.
“I was a one-year freshly minted Ph.D. and I was basically at the top of the food chain when you think about it from a structural standpoint,” says Mosley, who is the special assistant to the president for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Salus University. “I was on the cabinet. Who was going to hire me? I didn’t have work experience in higher education outside of really that one year and some adjunct teaching at a community college.”
Her focus shifted to one of her passions: DEI efforts. Mosley became the director of multicultural affairs at John Carroll University.
