More About Candace

Candace Reese is an author, speaker, and professor dedicated to helping others thrive.

With twenty years of college-level teaching and doctoral research in “adulting and success”, she helps students reimagine their life stories and see themselves as winners in her “Are You Ready for College?” program. She uses her academic training in college developmental education to help students develop their strengths and improve their weaknesses.

Awards

  • Southern Methodist University Doctor of Liberal Studies Scholarship

  • National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development International Award for Teaching Excellence

  • Thurgood Marshall Pathways Fellow for Positive Psychology

  • The Gallup Organization Fellowship for Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning

Education

  • Doctor of Liberal Studies, Southern Methodist University (2020)

  • Master of Arts, Texas Southern University (2001)

  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Houston (1999)

Professional Life

  • Are You Ready, Inc.

  • Faculty, Collin College

  • Faculty, Texas Southern University

  • Adjunct Faculty, University of North Texas

  • Adjunct Faculty, Richland College

  • Adjunct Faculty, Houston Community College

Presentations

  • Empowering Women in Leadership Conference, Penn State University

  • Love Liberates: The Midlife Transition of Maya Angelou, Collin College

  • CRed Talks, “Creativity and Transition in Midlife”, Southern Methodist University

  • “Teaching Rhetoric to Experienced Learners”, University of Texas at Dallas

Memberships

  • Modern Language Association

  • National Association of Developmental Education

  • Executive Women of Dallas

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