Carmen E Bynoe BovellDr. Carmen Bovell is an early childhood professional, having spent her entire fifty-year career in this field. Her professional experiences include teaching at the preschool, elementary, and university levels and leading and managing early childhood rograms at the local and federal levels. Dr. Bovell has also served as a visiting Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Specialist at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, Jamaica, and as Fulbright Specialist at the University of Guyana. Dr. Bovell was born in Guyana, where she attended primary school and high school and graduated with a teacher's diploma from the Guyana Teachers' Training College. She immigrated to the USA in 1969 and continued her professional education, earning a doctorate degree in early childhood special education, with a concentration in social and emotional disorders of preschool-aged children, from the University of Maryland, College Park. Since her retirement from federal service, Dr. Bovell has continued working in her field as an independent consultant, mentor, and coach. Dr. Bovell resides in North Carolina and is the proud mother of three, grandmother of seven, and great-grandmother of one. Read More Read Less