IPA Faculty and Staff

Dr. Nina Leacock received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine, under the direction of Homer Brown, Alexander Gelley, and J. Hillis Miller, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the Honors Program of the University of Michigan. Additionally, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Dr. Leacock brings a wealth of experience with diverse schools to her work building the unique program at NMMI-IPA. She has a twenty-year record of leading educational workshops and publishing on pedagogy and curriculum. As an independent-school academic leader, she has visited and interacted with the staff and faculties of over twenty schools for research or consultation. As an academic administrator at middle/high school and university levels, Dr. Leacock has supported faculty growth and academic excellence, including designing and implementing a new evaluation system for a faculty of over sixty teachers. As a school leader, Dr. Leacock also planned and implemented processes for schedule and curriculum redesign, including staffing and workload analysis. Dr. Leacock’s experience includes providing program support for a non-profit serving over two hundred Southwest schools and organizations, including conference planning and facilitation. She has presented to audiences of more than five hundred. As co-founder of the National Capstone Consortium and co-author of Capstone: Inquiry & Action at School, Dr. Leacock supported the design, development, and implementation of educational programs at more than sixty independent and public schools.

Dr. Leacock serves on the Board of Trustees for the Roswell Museum and Art Center and on the Advisory Council of the Sofia Center for Professional Development in Albuquerque. She is a co-founder and serves on the Leadership Team of the National Capstone Consortium. Her past service includes the Advisory Committee for the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, as well as accreditation work for the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest.