Yvette Pye

Email: pye.yvette@gmail.com

Yvette Pye is an Educator, IDI Qualified Administrator, and Change Leader

 She believes in the collective power of change.

She is an awarding winning visionary educational practitioner. Resiliently forging collegial relationships toward closing opportunity gaps and optimizing potential through meaningful work is core to her vocation.  Yvette is deeply fulfilled by inspiring system change through increasing cultural competence, inclusion, and equity courageously. For example, she led a team of professors to examine, alter and include principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) into their curriculum.

With more than 14 years in higher education and significant experience teaching adult learners in leadership Yvette done so through online, blended, and traditional modalities. Elevated learning challenges excite her because in her words, “it's what I was born to do”!  

Yvette’s is made richer through diverse research, empathic professional development, community and youth service for over 25 years. She is an author and educational consultant and has rich experiences in areas of: professional speaking, IDI, CRT, academic advisement, community/youth development, education and evaluation, curriculum and instructional design, qualitative research and housing.

Yvette holds a PhD and a MA in Urban Social Geography from the University of Minnesota. She also has a background in K-12 education, receiving her teaching license in Illinois.