Pamela Higgins Harris
Senior Consultant – Center for Education Equity
In her current role as Senior Consultant, Pamela’s work focuses on listening, collaborating, modeling, facilitating, and advising on tiered approaches for advancing culturally responsive and sustaining systemic leadership through the lens of educational equity.
To date, Pamela has over 50 years of experience in public education and higher education, serving in roles that have embedded her commitment as an education equity leader. Her work has always focused on balancing, while elevating, the academic, social-emotional, and socio-cultural needs and interests of diverse, underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized learners ranging from Pre-K to adult, as well as the stakeholders who serve them. Pamela’s decades of service include a wide range of teaching and leadership roles held in special education; professional development for school improvement; mediation/conflict analysis, restorative practice and resolution; high school university collaborative initiatives; facilitation of district-wide change and transformation; oversight of district-wide equity assurance compliance and programs; and graduate-level instruction on topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.
As a dedicated lifelong learner, educator, and leader, Pamela holds a B.A. in French and an M.Ed. in Special Education from American University; and an Advanced Graduate Specialist Certification (A.G.S.) in Professional Development & Urban Education from University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, she is culminating her journey in academia via doctoral studies in the American University School of Education Department of Policy and Educational Leadership (SOE EPL) with a concentration in Social Justice.
The quality of Pam’s life is enhanced by her steadfastly devoted family, the kinship and longevity of loyal friends, her cherished extended family, and the loving memory of her mother and father. The most enriching, fulfilling realm of Pam’s life rests in her marriage to the love of her life, Ty, with whom she will celebrate 49 years of marriage on June 15, 2023.
