Collette M. Bloom is currently a tenured professor with graduate faculty status in the department of Educational Administration in the College of Education. She received her Ed.D. from Texas A & M at College Station, Texas specializing in Educational Administration. Her dissertation was entitled Critical Race Theory and the African American Woman Principal: Alternative Portrayals of Effective Leadership Practices in Urban Schools. In 2003, she was awarded a scholarship by American Education Research Association,SIG Research on Women in Education, Special Interest Group (SIG) for outstanding dissertation research on African American women in Educational Administration.