Torri Hart
Ph.D. in Educational Policy & Planning, University of Texas at Austin, expected 2026
M.A. in English, George Mason University, 2019
B.A. in English, Secondary Education, Radford University, 2016
Email: torri.hart@austin.utexas.edu
View Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
M.A. in English, George Mason University, 2019
B.A. in English, Secondary Education, Radford University, 2016
Email: torri.hart@austin.utexas.edu
View Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Torri Danny Hart is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy and Planning program at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education from Radford University and a Master of Arts in English from George Mason University.
Hart began her career as an eighth-grade English teacher in Southern Virginia where she became passionate about providing equitable educational resources and opportunities to rural students. After completing her first year of teaching, she moved to Northern Virginia where she completed her M.A. while working as a technical writer and secondary English teacher. She taught at the middle and high school levels, including collegiate composition courses, for six years before pursuing doctoral studies. Prior to beginning her work with UT, Hart served as a government-contracted Strategic Communications Analyst for the United States Coast Guard. Each position has contributed to her skillset as a Teaching and Research Assistant in Educational Leadership & Policy and as an Assistant Instructor with the University Writing Center.
Her research, centered in rural contexts, aims to understand how rural school leaders can use their leadership practices to support students with disabilities to create inclusive, equitable schools.
Hart is pursuing her doctorate in Educational Policy and Planning with the intention to contribute to the scholarship on inclusive leadership in rural schooling contexts with the intention to support education leadership programs through research and instruction in the future.
Hart began her career as an eighth-grade English teacher in Southern Virginia where she became passionate about providing equitable educational resources and opportunities to rural students. After completing her first year of teaching, she moved to Northern Virginia where she completed her M.A. while working as a technical writer and secondary English teacher. She taught at the middle and high school levels, including collegiate composition courses, for six years before pursuing doctoral studies. Prior to beginning her work with UT, Hart served as a government-contracted Strategic Communications Analyst for the United States Coast Guard. Each position has contributed to her skillset as a Teaching and Research Assistant in Educational Leadership & Policy and as an Assistant Instructor with the University Writing Center.
Her research, centered in rural contexts, aims to understand how rural school leaders can use their leadership practices to support students with disabilities to create inclusive, equitable schools.
Hart is pursuing her doctorate in Educational Policy and Planning with the intention to contribute to the scholarship on inclusive leadership in rural schooling contexts with the intention to support education leadership programs through research and instruction in the future.
