A purpose-driven educational leader who values scholarship, leadership, and academic achievement. Over two decades of international experience in higher education, dedicated to transformative learning and instructional excellence. Works proactively to improve the graduate and undergraduate curriculum and to generate new traditional and online certificate and degree programs. Promotes interdisciplinary and inter-college collaboration and cooperation in graduate and undergraduate education. As an international faculty member and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada — I have 20+ years of higher education experience at American Research I institutions, public state and land-grant universities, two top-ranked global Canadian universities, a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) and two non- profit private women’s colleges — I value and embrace diversity, inclusion, and social equity.