Beatriz Pacheco, Ed.D. ’17 serves as the Director of Cultural and Community Education at the Auburn United Indian Community in California. Previously, she served as the Director of Education at the Pueblo of Sandia in Bernalillo, New Mexico. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Eastern New Mexico University, and completed her Ed.D. at Spalding University, where her dissertation was awarded the Shaughnessy Leadership Education Award. Dr. Pacheco’s dissertation research was later incorporated and published in her first book. Dr. Pacheco has experience as an administrator and instructor at the secondary and graduate levels. She received national recognition as a 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholar Most Influencer Teacher recipient.

Courses taught:

• EDD901 Academic Writing & Leadership Theory
• EDD902 Systems Theory and Leadership
• EDD920 Leadership Capstone I

Book Publications:

• The Rise of the Human Digital Brain: How Multidirectional Thinking Is Changing the Way We Learn (Information Age, 2018)