Meet Our Team
Our team
Leadership Advisory, Academic, Social Justice, Civic, Community, and Spiritual Organizations
Anthony Mansueto
Anthony Mansueto is a seasoned academic leader with roots in social theory, philosophy, and religious studies. He brings a profound commitment to the liberal arts as the condition for life as a free human being and engaged citizen and for the cultivation of a mature spirituality. He takes a strategic and relational approach to leadership, spending his best time doing individual relational meetings with faculty, administrators, students, and members of the communities we serve to map out their interests, networks and capacities and to lay the groundwork for an ongoing conversation regarding our common work. He advocates deep engagement with whole person, trying to understand what the people he is leading are trying to accomplish and why and helping them map out a strategy for their own growth and development, individually and as a community.
Mansueto has taught at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Mexico and has served as a liberal arts dean at three different community colleges and in other academic leadership roles. He also led implementation of a new question centered liberal arts core curriculum at the University of the District of Columba, an HBCU, and was responsible for all community college functions in southern Southeast Alaska.
He has published nine books, including, most recently, The Ways of Wisdom: Towards a Global Convivencia Theology and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Religion and Filosofskie Nauki as well as Commonweal and Tikkun. Mansueto’s scholarly work engages fundamental questions of meaning and value, integrating insights from across spiritual and civilizational traditions and aims, like his academic leadership and teaching at seeking wisdom, doing justice, and ripening being.
William Smith
William Smith recently served as the Dean of Instruction for Dallas College in Dallas, TX. Mr. Smith has over 16 years of experience in higher education. He has taught undergraduate courses, and has served on many committees related to student success and retention. His research interests include special populations in Higher Education (i.e., minority males, students with disabilities and veterans).
Prior to joining El Centro College, he served as the Coordinator of Disability Support Services at Tarrant County College. He began his career in Student Support Services at Lincoln University of Missouri as a Learning Specialist for the TRIO program, Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the University of Missouri. He is a first generation American and the first in his family to attend college. Mr. Smith holds a BS from Lincoln University, and a MA in Human Development and Family Studies, M.Ed. in Special Education from the University of Missouri, and is currently working on his Doctorate from American College of Education.