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Roberson is one of the few people who was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She graduated high school with honors from the Business and Management Center High School and received her Bachelor of Business Administration (Cum Laude) degree from the University of North Texas. Her MBA degree in International Management is from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management and doctorate in Philosophy (Organizational Leadership) is from Regent University.
Her work experience spans two fields that she loves: diversity and education. During ten years at the U. S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) she investigated complaints of discrimination within the United States education system. Her territory included Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
While at OCR, she began teaching undergraduate business courses for Cedar Valley Community College, Paul Quinn College, Navarro College and the University of North Texas – Dallas Campus. To work more closely in higher education, she accepted a position with the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) as the Coordinator of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. In this role, she was responsible for compliance training of all UTA employees, internal and external investigations of discrimination and the affirmative action plan, while also teaching in the Department of Business for UTA.
After three years in that role and completing my Ph.D., she became Executive Dean at North Lake College, taking charge of the Business and Information Technology Department including more than 120 faculty and staff, 2 computer labs, and 8 degree programs.
After almost four years in that position, she then became the Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at the University of North Texas (UNT). Currently as DART’s Director of Diversity and EEO, she oversees the investigation of all internal complaints of discrimination, the preparation of the Affirmative Action Plain, approval of ADA employee accommodation and instruction of compliance training to DART employees. She still also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses part-time for Amberton University.
She has a 14 year-old son who wants to be a Marine Biologist, a Chihuahua named Spirit and water dragon (lizard) named KaBoom, Boom for short.