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Sam Mitchell is the Assistant Director of Faculty Programs and Services at the CTL. In her role, Sam consults with faculty about their teaching and designs and facilitates workshops, institutes, and other programming and resources to support faculty and their pedagogical development at Columbia University.

Prior to joining the CTL at Columbia, Sam worked as a Graduate Consultant at the Drake Institute for Teaching at Learning at Ohio State University. There, she supported the pedagogical and professional development of graduate teaching associates through individual consultation, the design and facilitation of programming on teaching and pedagogy, and the creation of online teaching resources. Sam also taught in the department of Sociology at Ohio State University and the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. In 2023, Sam was awarded the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, the most competitive teaching award available for graduate teaching associates at Ohio State University.

Sam is finishing her Ph.D. in sociology at Ohio State University., where she also received her M.A. in sociology in 2021. She holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research is centered on inequality in higher education, first-generation college students, credentialism, and alternate assessment.

In her free time, Sam enjoys making art, going to see movies, writing, and cooking.