Clementine M. Msengi

Clementine M. Msengi Ed. D. received her doctorate degree in Educational Leadership from Lamar University. She is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Doctoral Studies, at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Promotion and a Master of Arts degree in Community Health from the University of Northern Iowa where she was recently inducted into the Hall of Excellence. Following her master’s degree education, Dr. Msengi received two prestigious fellowships: The New Voices Fellowship funded by the Ford Foundation and the Echoing Green Foundation Fellowship. These awards enabled her to found an organization focused on improving the health and well-being of refugees and immigrants through education and mentoring. As an executive director, she created and managed community-based mentoring programs and received several awards for her work including the “Outstanding American by Choice Award” from the Department of Homeland Security and the “Immigrant Entrepreneur Leadership Award.” She served as a member of the “Diversifying the Pipeline in K-12 Education Community of Practice”; which was funded in collaboration with the Echoing Green Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. Her published works and research interests focus on mentoring, resilience, global leadership, health education, multicultural and global education. She has edited two books entitled: Designing Culturally Competent Programming for PK-20 Classrooms and the Handbook of Research on Contemporary Issues in Multicultural and Global Education.