Gail O'Connor Mellow was President from 2000 to 2019 of LaGuardia Community College located in Long Island City, New York.
[2][6] Mellow has also served on numerous boards that include the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council,[7] American Association for Higher Education, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, and the Community College Research Center at Columbia University.
[citation needed] She is the co-author of Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College.
[citation needed] Mellow founded and chaired the (NECEA) Northeast Connecticut Economic Alliance, a nonprofit development agency.
She represented the United States in the first US-China Community College collaborative conference meeting, which was held in Beijing in 2004.