Joie Jager-Hyman is a writer, consultant and doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Administration, Planning and Social Policy with a concentration in Higher Education. Before coming to Harvard in the fall of 2002, Joie worked as an Assistant Director of Admissions for Dartmouth College, her alma mater. Her current doctoral work focuses on policies pertaining to access and persistence in higher education for low-income students. She has also served as a Consultant for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, a bipartisan Congressional committee for which she presented findings from her research in testimony at a hearing on Alternative Pathways to Baccalaureate Degree Attainment in April 2006.

In addition to her doctoral research, Joie recently completed her first book. Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize (Harper Perennial, March 2008) chronicles the experiences of five very different students as they navigate the world of selective college admissions. Joie has been featured in the Washington Post, written opinion pieces for Women's eNews and Metro, the world's most highly circulated newspaper, and has lectured at Columbia University on making the transition between academic and popular writing. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh.

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