Editorial Team

Co-Editors

Kendra Williams-Diehm, PhD, BCBA, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Kendra Williams-Diehm is a Professor and Director with Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment. Located within the Special education program in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma. She holds both the Zarrow Family Endowed Chair and the Brian E. and Sandra L. O’Brien Presidential Professorship. Her primary research interests include comprehensive transition services with a focus on appropriate transition assessment and self-determination for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A secondary research interest focuses on assisting teachers in promoting the development of transition and self-determination for their students.

Dr. Williams-Diehm has over 50 publications, including peer reviewed manuscripts in top educational journals, books chapters, and more - all centered around transition and self-determination. She has been awarded more the $15,00,000 in external funding, primarily through the US Dept of Education Office of Special Education Programs and Institute for Education Sciences. Prior to received her doctoral degree, Dr Williams-Diehm taught special education at both elementary and secondary level and still considered herself to be an educator first.

Stacie Dojonovic, EdD, CVE, University of Kansas

Stacie L. Dojonovic Schutzman is a professor and the coordinator for the University of Kansas Online Transition Program. Stacie has over 20 years' experience as an educator and transition specialist in both urban and suburban school districts. Her passion through the years has been to continue to engage diverse audiences in order to implement research to practice to improve the post school outcomes of all youth. She has developed, implemented and disseminated a U.S. Department of Education Grant, which expanded and evolved into a four-year model transition program. Additionally Stacie has served as President, Marketing Chair, Transition Assessment/Vocational Evaluation Representative and Newsletter Editor for the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Career Development and Transition.

Malarie Deardorff, PhD, Universiy of Oklahoma 

Malarie Deardorff, PhD, is the assistant director of the Zarrow Institute on Transition and Self-Determination and assistant research professor at the University of Oklahoma. Her primary research interests are in transition assessments, incorporating transition practices into elementary and middle school classrooms, and compliance and quality transition planning. Prior to her work at the Zarrow Institute, Malarie was a special education teacher for several years in Oklahoma public schools.