Dr. Lisa Hill Leads with Empower! Dr. Hill is currently the Chair of the Department of History at Hamden Hall Country Day School in Hamden, CT. Lisa has over 20 years of teaching and administrative experience at the secondary and collegiate level and shares wonderful insight into her leadership journey from student to educator. Lisa is a life-long learner - earning a BA in Liberal Studies from the University of Maryland, Masters' Degrees in US History and African American Literature from Emory University, and a Ph.D. in US History and African American Literature from Emory University. Lisa's research includes Women's History, the Civil War, and Civil Rights movements and Lisa is currently working on a manuscript about Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, M.D., the first African American student to graduate from Yale.

Leadership Notes and Other Highlights:

Lisa loves teaching history to her students; helping students learn to open-up, analyze, and become thinkers!

Lisa's inspiration to become an educator can be connected to her experiences with two college professors, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

One of Lisa's favorite quotes "Life is a buffet and most poor bastards are starving" from Auntie Mame

Another favorite quote from Lisa's grandmother - "You're an odd duck, embrace it!"

Lisa's self-leadership - "If I don't push myself to do things, how could I push others to do so."

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