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Julia L. Roberts, EdD

Professor
Western Kentucky University, Kentucky

Julia Link Roberts, Ed.D., is the Mahurin Professor of Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University. She is the Executive Director of The Center for Gifted Studies and The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky. Dr. Roberts is past-president of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children and a board member of The Association for the Gifted (a division of the Council for Exceptional Children) and the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education. She is chair of the Kentucky Advisory Council for Gifted Education. She was honored with the Acorn Award which recognizes the outstanding professor at a four-year college in Kentucky. Dr. Roberts received the first NAGC David W. Belin Award for Advocacy and the NAGC Ann F. Isaacs Founding Member’s Award. Dr. Roberts and her daughter Julie Boggess have authored Teacher's Survival Guide: Gifted Education (2nd edition, 2020). She is coauthor with Dr. Tracy Inman of Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom, (4th ed.) and the 2009 Legacy Award winner for the outstanding book for educators in gifted education by the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and Assessing Differentiated Student Products: A Protocol for Development and Evaluation. With Dr. Inman and Dr. Jennifer Robins, she edited Introduction to Gifted Education, a Legacy Award-winning book in the scholarship category, and the 2nd edition of the Introduction to Gifted Education was published in 2022. Dr. Roberts directs summer and Saturday programs for children and young people who are gifted and talented. Dr. Roberts directs summer and Saturday programming for children and young people. She also teaches graduate classes in gifted education and talent development.

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