# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judy-dushku
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:00:30.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judy-dushku"
name: "Judy Dushku"
slug: "judy-dushku"
description: "Judith Ann \"Judy\" Dushku is an American academic political scientist, journalist, writer, and humanitarian. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and well known as a Mormon feminist, Dushku cofounded the Mormon women's journal Exponent II, was the Relief Society president for the Boston stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, became lead founder of a humanitarian agency in Uganda, and is a professor of government at Suffolk University, specializing in comparative politics and the interaction of policy and gender since the 1970s. Dushku has been dean of a satellite campus, has won two major awards at Suffolk, and has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Dushku was extensively quoted by the media regarding Mitt Romney during his presidential candidacy. Her daughter, Eliza Dushku, is a successful television and film actress."
tagline: "American academic political scientist, journalist, writer and humanitarian"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.83
  momentum:             1.595015576323988
  historical:           1.667325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  39
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Dushku"
    title: "Judy Dushku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86125442"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations