Editorial Team

Co-Editors

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

Dr. Kendra Williams-Diehm is a Professor and Director with Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination 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 of which are centered around transition and self-determination. She has been awarded more the $15,00,000 in external funding, primarily through the US Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and Institute for Education Sciences (IES). Prior to receiving her doctoral degree, Dr. Williams-Diehm taught special education at both the elementary and secondary levels and still considers herself to be an educator first.

Stacie Dojonovic, EdD, CVE, University of Kansas

Dr. Stacie L. Dojonovic Schutzman is a professor and the coordinator for the University of Kansas Online Transition Program. Stacie has over 20 years of 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 US 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 

Dr. Malarie Deardorff is the Assistant Director of the Zarrow Institute on Transition & 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.

Associate Editor

Melissa Wicker, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Melissa Wicker is the Assistant Director of Outreach of the Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination and TAGG Coordinator. Her primary research interests are literacy and culturally responsive and sustaining practices in teaching and transition. Prior to joining the Zarrow Institute, Melissa worked for the Oklahoma Writing Project and taught middle school language arts.