Email: billiemayo@aol.com

Billie Mayo, EdD is a retired educator, now a Senior Consultant for Educational Equity Consultants, an organization committed to dismantling the oppression of racism in public education. Dr. Mayo spent twenty-three years as a middle school teacher before moving to central level administration where she worked until retiring from Saint Louis Public Schools after 38 years of dedicated service to that District. While working in the Saint Louis Public School system, Billie conducted a number of in-services for personnel on a wide range of topics such as team building, effective communication, improving discipline with dignity, conflict mediation and stress management. She has shared her expertise and insight on how to dismantle racism and build multicultural alliances among people in a number of places such as South Africa, the Virgin Islands, and in school districts both locally and nationally. Dr. Mayo has spoken at a number of Learning Forward and White Privilege Conferences, as well as at other conferences sponsored by the Association of Baha’i Studies, the YWCA, Professional Women’s Organization (POW), Saint Louis Association of Black Administrators (SLABA), to name a few. Dr. Mayo, who has co-authored a book entitled CREATING A SOCIAL CHANGE LEADER, was the recipient of the Saint Louis American’s 2002 Salute to Excellence Award for Educators, 2003 University City School System’s Dr. Martin Luther King Spirit Award for Social Justice and the University of Missouri-St. Louis 2007 Dean’s Award for contributions to Social Justice. In 2009, Dr. Mayo received the YWCA’s 2009 Woman of the Year Racial Justice Leader award. She is a continuing member and a past President of the Board of Interfaith Partnership-STL.