Susan H. Shapiro

Susan H. Shapiro is Co-Director of the New DEEL (Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership) Community Network. She is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Special Education at Touro Graduate School of Education. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in child psychology from the New School, Eugene Lang College, and a Master's degree from Bank Street College of Education. She received her Doctorate from the Steinhardt School at New York University in Educational Leadership where her dissertation examined early childhood directors’ experiences on 9/11/01. She has led early childhood programs and inclusion programs for the past 25 years. She has also been an advocate for early childhood education policy and has authored articles on crisis, ethical leadership, and compassion. She is the author of a new book Interpreting COVID-19 Through Turbulence Theory Perspectives and Cases from Early Childhood and Special Education.