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Bio

Dr. Shontay Delalue is a higher education administrator and scholar with extensive experience working on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and global relations. In July 2021, she began her tenure as the inaugural Senior Vice President and Senior Diversity Officer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Reporting to the President and serving on the senior leadership team, she is a senior strategist, thought partner and subject matter expert responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating Dartmouth’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the entire ecosystem. She is a Course Director in the Geisel School of Medicine teaching a course annually in the Master of Public Health residential program and holds an Adjunct Assistant Professorship in African and African American Studies. Her current research focuses on health and wealth equity in the Black community.

Prior to Dartmouth, she served as Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity at Brown University. In that role, she provided strategic direction for a wide range of initiatives to build and sustain a diverse and inclusive environment at Brown that included diversifying hiring practices, coordinating pipeline programs and training efforts, monitoring and reporting on progress related to the campus wide strategic planning (Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan), and overseeing compliance (Title IX, discrimination and harassment, bias incidents, affirmative action, ADA/Section 504). She held an Adjunct Assistant Professorship in American Studies and taught a course that took students to Ghana.

In addition to her role as Vice President, she was appointed as the interim Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the Division of Biology and Medicine also at Brown. In that inaugural role, she assisted the deans’ leadership team at the medical school with laying a foundation of incorporating an anti-racist framework into the curriculum, reviewing and improving the existing hiring practices, developing short and long-term training opportunities, ensuring a supportive environment for all underrepresented constituents of the BioMed community, and partnering with the hospital systems. 

In her career, Shontay has worked in admissions, advising, counseling as well as international and multicultural affairs. She managed the recruitment of students from historically underrepresented groups at the University of Maine. From there, she joined the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, AK, where among many responsibilities she directed admissions of the three Southeast campuses and ran the dual enrollment program.

Later, she was a counselor at the Met High School in Providence, RI where she mentored and supported hundreds of students, primarily students of color, with their socio-emotional growth, well-being and post-secondary aspirations. From there she returned to higher education and served as the director of the Intercultural Center at Bryant University, where she developed comprehensive social justice initiatives and served as the international Principal Designated School Official as well as an adjunct instructor in the sociology and psychology departments.

Shontay Delalue hails from Roselle, New Jersey and is a proud first-generation college graduate. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication and a Master of Education both from the University of Maine. She attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education and earned a Ph.D. in Education through a joint program of the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College where her doctoral work used critical race theory to explore the dichotomy that arises for African and Caribbean students who are racialized in a U.S. context.

She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a Research Fellow with the TIAA Institute, and serves as a member of the University of Maine Board of Visitors and previously the Community Preparatory School’s Board of Trustees.

She has traveled to 47 U.S. states and over 25 countries on six continents always considering the ways in which local and global means of socialization impact how we see ourselves and how our views of others are formed and maintained.  

“I strive to lead from a place of cultural humility. In short, we engage in multicultural encounters on a daily basis but we all have limits to our own knowledge. Traveling around the country and the world has expanded my knowledge of myself and others.” - Shontay Delalue, PhD

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