Dr. Shara Lee currently serves as a campus director for Faculty & Instructional Development at Valencia College focusing on experiential education faculty development. She joined Valencia in 2013 after five years with the University of Central Florida as a faculty member with the Office of Experiential Learning and ten years with The Walt Disney Company. Her doctoral work in experiential learning earned recognition as the National Society for Experiential Education’s Outstanding Education Research Award. Dr. Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in interpersonal and organizational communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from Stetson University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Central Florida.