Dr. Dionne V. McLaughlin is an Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University in the Master of School Administration Program. She is a British-born Jamaican educator who is an experienced bilingual high school and elementary school principal and K-12 Director. She has 17 years of experience teaching, a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Recent publications: Emerald Book: Personalized Principal Leadership Practices: Eight Strategies for Leading Equitable, High Achieving Schools, Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina article: Personalized Principal Leadership Practices, Corwin book Insights: How Expert Principals Make Difficult Decisions, Book Chapter: New South Realities: Demographics, Diversity and Cultural Capital in The Sage Guide to Educational Leadership and Management, an NCPEA article: How Administrators Can Improve Schools by Learning from the Experiences of African American and Latino High School Students, and a Book Chapter: Exemplary Leadership in Diverse Cultural Contexts in The Springer Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education.