Dr. Dessynie Edwards

Dr. Dessynie Edwards is a scholar practitioner who shares her more than 25 years of P-12 district and school leadership experience to inform her scholarship, cultivate P-20 scholar-practitioners, and bridge P-12 and higher education. During her years in public education, she served as an assistant superintendent in Dallas ISD and Austin ISD, Executive Director in Judson ISD, and principal in various San Antonio schools. Currently, Dr. Edwards' tenure in higher education includes faculty appointment at UTSA. Additionally, previous faculty appointment at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi and Texas State University. Her research agenda includes the school district superintendency, race and gender intersectionality, mentoring and educational leadership development.