Renee Escoffery-Torres, PhD
Renee Escoffery-Torres, PhD, resident
of Hampton and native of Ettrick Virginia,
retired from the Department of Army after
serving as Command Chief of Staff and
Faculty, TRADOC. Renee received her B.A.
from Virginia State University, her M.A. from
the University of Cincinnati, and her Ph.D.
from the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore. With post-doctoral study in Public
Leadership from the Brookings Institution,
Renee attended and taught on the faculty of
Hampton University. A product of HBCUs
from Laboratory School to terminal degree,
the study of HBCUs, and African American
History and culture is Dr. Escoffery-Torres’s
passion. Renee served as Intern to the
Secretary of Education for Virginia,
participated in the ACE Summit for Women
of Color in Higher Ed at Brown University,
and as a panelist on Women in Leadership at
the ILA's Annual Conference, Prague, Czech
Republic. Renee’s dissertation research on
HBCUs was presented at Yale, and the
University of the West Indies, Mona
(Jamaica), and Cave Hill (Barbados)
campuses.
Most recently, Dr. Escoffery-Torres was honored to be listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America (2021-2022). Dr. Escoffery-Torres is proud to serve on the HBCU Emergency Management Workforce Consortium, as she has a vested interest in helping to provide opportunities for students attending these time-honored institutions, and maintains a personal interest in supporting the effort to safeguard and protect the communities which they serve.