Dorothy M. Leveque, EdD, enjoyed a thirty-eight-year career in education in the USA, working as an educator as well as an administrator in a variety of settings.
She is currently the president and CEO of Pathways/Africa, a small nonprofit organization based in Claremont, California, which empowers and assists the people of Africa through the mutual development of sustainable resources for community planning, education, and health services. She also started a literacy program called Pathways to African Literacy (PAL), which raises funds to purchase textbooks for African schools and provides assistance for the establishment of school gardens and feeding programs. As a former member of the Ontario Rotary Club of California and an honorary member of the Newlands Rotary Club of Cape Town, South Africa, she was also successful in helping secure funding for two literacy grants in Cape Town, South Africa.
She is a widow with one stepdaughter and four grandchildren.