Smith McKoy Bio
EDUCATION
Ph.D English | Duke University
MA English | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BA English | North Carolina State University
With over thirty years of experience in Higher Education and leadership, Dr. Sheila Smith McKoy brings a wealth of experience in leading change and transformation in higher education. She has served in the highest levels of academic leadership including at the provost’s level. She has also contributed as a transformational leader at the University of San Francisco, Holy Names University, Kennesaw State University, North Carolina State University and Vanderbilt University, where she earned tenure as only the second Black woman to be tenured in her college in 2001. In 1994, Smith McKoy was the first Africa American to earn a PhD in English from Duke University.
Smith McKoy is published widely in the areas of race and difference, mentorship, literature and culture, and mentorship.
As a trained mediator, Smith McKoy specializes in restorative justice practices. She brings this lens to her ombuds work with colleges and universities. The insights she has gained from serving as a faculty member and higher education leader have enabled her to build consensus while addressing grievances. She also regularly contributes to peace-making efforts in her community by serving as a voluntary mediator in the San Francisco Bay Area, restorative justice consultant and Truth and Reconciliation discussion leader.
Her leadership skillset has been honed by her work in higher education and with non-profits in the U.S, and abroad, and in consultation with clients in healthcare, law, social justice, and equity management. Smith McKoy’s international engagement work includes creating and sustaining partnerships between higher education institutions in the United States and international universities and non-governmental organizations.
An award-wining poet, fiction writer and filmmaker, Dr. Smith McKoy is the recipient of the 202 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize in Poetry. She has also written, produced, directred or executive-produced four documentay films. Her scholarly works have consistently broken new ground in our conversations about race, violence, diversity/equity/inclusion and access. A native of Raleigh, NC, she lives in the the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ph.D English | Duke University
MA English | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BA English | North Carolina State University
With over thirty years of experience in Higher Education and leadership, Dr. Sheila Smith McKoy brings a wealth of experience in leading change and transformation in higher education. She has served in the highest levels of academic leadership including at the provost’s level. She has also contributed as a transformational leader at the University of San Francisco, Holy Names University, Kennesaw State University, North Carolina State University and Vanderbilt University, where she earned tenure as only the second Black woman to be tenured in her college in 2001. In 1994, Smith McKoy was the first Africa American to earn a PhD in English from Duke University.
Smith McKoy is published widely in the areas of race and difference, mentorship, literature and culture, and mentorship.
As a trained mediator, Smith McKoy specializes in restorative justice practices. She brings this lens to her ombuds work with colleges and universities. The insights she has gained from serving as a faculty member and higher education leader have enabled her to build consensus while addressing grievances. She also regularly contributes to peace-making efforts in her community by serving as a voluntary mediator in the San Francisco Bay Area, restorative justice consultant and Truth and Reconciliation discussion leader.
Her leadership skillset has been honed by her work in higher education and with non-profits in the U.S, and abroad, and in consultation with clients in healthcare, law, social justice, and equity management. Smith McKoy’s international engagement work includes creating and sustaining partnerships between higher education institutions in the United States and international universities and non-governmental organizations.
An award-wining poet, fiction writer and filmmaker, Dr. Smith McKoy is the recipient of the 202 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize in Poetry. She has also written, produced, directred or executive-produced four documentay films. Her scholarly works have consistently broken new ground in our conversations about race, violence, diversity/equity/inclusion and access. A native of Raleigh, NC, she lives in the the San Francisco Bay Area.
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