Dr. Shaunta Scroggins

Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Lead Forward Fellowship

Biography

Shaunta D. Scroggins is a lecturer and Assistant Director of the Lead Forward Fellowship in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. She earned her BA in International Business in 2000 from Dillard University, a historically Black university in New Orleans, LA. She earned her MEd in Curriculum and Instruction in 2014 from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 2019, she completed her EdD in Educational Leadership at Dallas Baptist University in Dallas, TX. Her prior research has examined toxic leadership, transformational leadership, effective mentoring.

A native Texan, Shaunta has been an educator for 20 years in training, nonprofit, and private sector spaces for leader and professional development. As a mentoring leader, she has worked with teens and young professionals on assessing leadership priorities and crafting a philosophy of leadership, respectively. She is passionate about applying leadership theory and transformational solutions to address toxic leadership practices. Through her work in the Lead Forward Program, Shaunta will work with faculty, students, and community leaders to help facilitate social change on Purdue’s campus and in the Lafayette area.

Shaunta enjoys good food, DIY projects, and traveling. She is looking to get involved in community service in the Lafayette area.

Contact Info

WOOD 149
sdscrogg@purdue.edu