Dr. Carmen E. Bynoe Bovell is an early childhood professional, having spent her entire fifty-year career in this field. Her professional experiences include teaching at the preschool, elementary, and university levels and leading and managing early childhood programs at the local and federal levels. Dr. Bovell has also served as a visiting Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Specialist at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, Jamaica, and as Fulbright Specialist at the University of Guyana. Dr. Bovell was born in Guyana, where she attended primary school and high school and graduated with a teacher’s diploma from the Guyana Teachers’ Training College. She immigrated to the USA in 1969 and continued her professional education, earning a doctorate degree in early childhood special education, with a concentration in social and emotional disorders of preschool-aged children, from the University of Maryland, College Park. Since her retirement from federal service, Dr. Bovell has continued working in her field as an independent consultant, mentor, and coach. Dr. Bovell currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina after living over 50 years in Maryland. She is the proud mother of three adult children and grandmother of seven.