Dr. Essie McKoy Award-Winning Educator, Speaker, Author, and Coach!Dr. McKoy grew up in Milwaukee, NC with her late mother, Evangelist Essie and her father Reverend John Manley. She was the first to attend college in her immediate family and received four degrees. Currently, she is working on her fifth degree and she believes her most important degree in Pastoral Ministry. Essie has attended many leadership programs at Harvard University, Howard University, Wake Forest University, North Carolina State University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! She has two beautiful children, Marcus and Shardae. Essie is active in her church, has traveled extensively, and thoroughly enjoys impacting the lives of young people. She has a passion for working with schools and students, especially schools that are highly impacted and is known for her ability to transform schools. Dr. McKoy has led two schools to become Piedmont Signature Schools.Her goal in life is to allow God to align her purpose with her destiny and be able to use all her God-given gifts to make a profound difference in the lives of others. She has almost 30 years of experience in public education ranging from elementary to high school where she has served as a teacher, assistant principal, executive director, principal, and school executive, as well as post-secondary education experience where she served as an adjunct professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and ITT Technical Institute. Dr. Mckoy has operated school budgets of more than 3 million dollars and maximized funds to positively impact every aspect of the schools she has transformed. Currently, she is employed at George Mason University.www.dressiespeaks.com