Debbie Stanley, Ph.D., retired in 2012 after 32 years in education as a public school educator and Early Childhood professor of the University of South Carolina and Coastal Carolina University. She has served as Horry County Chair of the First Steps state initiative. She has written and presented various articles on diversity in the public school classroom. Her response to “The Bridge” poem is included in the book Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach. Debbie is also a contributing author in the newly released book: Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do: Stories of Living Divided No More Editors Sally Z. Hare, Megan Leboutillier (Apr 11, 2014)
