Angela Duckworth is co-founder, chief scientist, and a board member of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change For Good Initiative, and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics. 

A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. 

Prior to her career in research, Angela founded a summer school for low-income children that was profiled as a Harvard Kennedy School case study and, in 2018, celebrated its 25th anniversary. She has also been a McKinsey management consultant and a math and science teacher in the public schools of New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. 

Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Studies Neurobiology at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Neuroscience from Oxford University. She completed her PhD in Psychology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Angela's TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time. Her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a #1 New York Times best seller. She is also co-host, with Stephen Dubner, of the podcast No Stupid Questions.

Angela Duckworth

Miami Dade College

Dean Of Students

I am the principal administrator who oversees the division of student services / affairs at one of Miami Dade College's 7 campuses. I supervisor area directors and full time student-affairs professionals in disability services, student life/activities, testing & assessment, advisement & career services, and student recruitment.

Director Of Students Services

I was the principal administrator overseeing the establishment of a financial aid and advisement presence at a newly, SACS approved campus.  I hired our first STUDENT LIFE director and RECRUITMENT professionals.

Manager, Student Services

I supervised over 20 instructional assistants that provided support and tutoring in business, computer competencies, math and language skills.

Lab Manager

I am a passionate, results-driven student affairs professional with over 20 years of experience at an urban college in South Florida. My doctoral dissertation was a qualitative study on the non-academic factors that greatly impacted the baccalaureate degree attainment of non-native English speaking Cuban women.  I have a passion for student success and greatly enjoy teaching and training. The past 5 years I have had the privilege of serving on our core team charged with fundamentally redesigning the student experience in order to better help students along their pathway to a degree. My current work represents the convergence of my professional experience and academic scholarship.  Along the way, I started a peer mentoring program aimed at supporting all first time in college academically at-risk students on our campus.   

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