W. E. B. Du Bois's Talented Tenth: A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership - Paperback

Sloan, Ella F.: - Dr. Ella Sloan is a native Texan. A life long learner with multiple leadership skills and talents, Dr. Sloan believes that life experience is the best teacher. She earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of San Diego, and both her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from San Diego State University. She has managed to blend her vocational and academic talents into an inspired and inspirational professional career. Her leadership has benefited her community, church, and especially young scholars, whose lives she has had the opportunity to influence, and whom she has watched grow into bright academicians, teachers, businessmen and businesswomen with promising careers across this country. Dr. Sloan is a recipient of numerous leadership awards, and has served many organizations in a myriad of capacities. Such organizations as the NAACP, National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. (holding both regional and national offices), and AARP (being a local and state volunteer of the San Diego local chapter) are the back drop and landscape of her continued dedication to being a voice and presence in and beyond her community. As a former business owner in San Diego, California for over 18 years, she has always carried a passion and thirst for knowledge, and has vied to make that knowledge available as a catalyst for change. She believes in living life fully, and being thankful for all blessings.