A transformational leader with a passion for the field of student holistic achievement, Dr. Dabney finds it his calling to inspire that spark of genius and ignite the dream in, as well as to help discern the academic and professional goals of college bound and college engaged students from urban areas. In 2008 Dr. Dabney completed the educational policy and leadership doctoral program at The Ohio
State University. His program of study focused on educational administration and leadership, curriculum, and urban education. While at The Ohio State University, Dr. Dabney served as assistant editor for the Review of Educational Research Journal and participated in several college access and success initiatives within the Office of Minority Affairs and the Department of African American and African Studies. Dr. Dabney currently serves as the Director of Academic Affairs for College Track, New Orleans. In this capacity, Dr. Dabney leads a team in providing academic enrichment programs and services to ensure
College Track Scholars are competitive candidates for and prepared for the academic rigors of postsecondary education. Prior to this role, he served as the Assistant Vice President/ Chief Development Officer and Acting Director of The Early Childhood Learning Institute for Hopkins House, a non-profit early care and education organization that focuses on providing quality early childhood education through direct instruction, college access/workforce development, and systems reform. Dr. Dabney also served as the Director of Scholar Support Programs for Project GRAD Atlanta. With Project GRAD Atlanta, he worked with the organization’s scholarship recipients in supporting their postsecondary persistence as they matriculated into and progressed through their respective higher educational institutions across the nation and provided college access programs for students and parents within the organization’s three designated high schools in Atlanta Public Schools. His most notable accomplishments in this capacity are implementing the organization’s robust co-curricular college success program that focused on academic enrichment and support, social adjustment, financial stability, and personal development of the scholars and the creation of the organization’s Senior Senior-Parent Institute (SSPI). Preceding his doctoral work and after receiving his Master of Science in Higher Education Student
Affairs from Florida State University, Dr. Dabney served as a Diversity Education Specialist in the Texas A&M University Department of Multicultural Services where he advised and established student
organizations, facilitated and coordinated diversity-related workshops and conferences for students,
faculty, and staff, and served as a college instructor for a social justice centered freshman seminar course. Dr. Dabney’s history also includes the receipt of his Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in 1999 as a cm laude graduate from Southern University and A&M College, work as a Tutor Coordinator with the Southern University Classic Upward Bound Project, and service as a sixth grade teacher with the Louisiana Department of Education. A proud native of New Orleans and product of its public school system, Dr. Dabney is the oldest of six children.
