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• Matthew Militello is the Wells Fargo Distinguished Professor in Educational Leadership at East Carolina University. He has held faculty positions at North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prior to his academic career, Militello was a middle and high public school teacher, assistant principal, and principal in Michigan. Militello has more than 60 publications, including his 7th book, Leading and learning together: Cultivating school change from within (2025, Teachers College Press). Militello has received more than $22 million in external funding. Militello is the founding director of the ECU International Ed.D. program, a hybrid, three-year EdD with annual summer learning in Bangkok, Thailand.In 2023, he was awarded the ECU Eminent Career Trend Setter Award. He earned his undergraduate teaching degree from the University of Michigan and his masters and Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Michigan State University. Matt has been married to Elizabeth for 31 years and is the father of four wonderful boys.