Elizabeth Bodamer (she/her/ella) has a PhD in Sociology from Indiana University Bloomington and a JD from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She was the 2019-2020 American Bar Foundation/AccessLex Doctoral Fellow in Legal Education & Higher Education, and her dissertation focused on exclusionary experiences and sense of belonging in U.S. law schools. As a PhD student at Indiana, Bodamer was also the director of student affairs at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. At LSAC she was the diversity, equity, and inclusion policy & research analyst and senior program manager before becoming the director of research. A 2008 LSAC PLUS alumna, today, Bodamer leads the applied research agenda and strategic research team focused on equity in admission, innovation, and programmatic impact.
LSAC is committed to unlocking vital data to provide the entire legal education community the ability to confront challenges in the most effective manner, work toward concrete outcomes, and learn what works and what does not.
LSAC is excited to join the College Board in a new research project aimed at exploring relevant environmental context factors for law school/graduate admission.