Gloria McDaniel-Hall

Dr. Gloria McDaniel-Hall is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership Department at National Louis University in Chicago. She is a special guest at Kristin Lems’ Friday upcoming night concert at UCE, an auction donation about the 8th Principle. 

She has been a school principal, director of school quality and curriculum and instruction specialist and classroom teacher, with a tenure of nearly 40 years as an educator.  She presents and publishes in many venues and co-leads the racial justice task force in National College of Education.

Dr. McDaniel-Hall believes education is the human rights issue of our time and has devoted her life to equity for all members of the school community.

She has written two children’s books. The first, Gloria Finds her Voice, is about her own journey as one of the first children to integrate a school in Galveston, Texas. The second, Payton Finds a Friend, recounts a first grader’s first days in a new school.

She has made solo pilgrimages to the important sites of the modern civil rights movement and the sites where enslaved ancestors suffered and endured the shameful history of slavery in the US.  She is that rare combination of a brilliant, hungry mind and an ebullient nature and Kristin is enormously grateful that she will be gracing us this Friday!