J Coleman-Merritt

J Coleman-Merritt is a retired Educator. She was a classroom teacher for over 25 years, as well as a Central and Local District Administrator with the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is currently an Author and Educational Trainer/Consultant. This memoir, Lessons from Starfish, is a reflection on her experiences as a classroom teacher and the essential principles she learned from some of her most challenging students.Coleman-Merritt edited and published Come Drink from My Cup: Musings of an East Harlem Poet as a tribute to her late brother, Damon Chandler, in 2005. Two recent articles in the field of Human Resources were published in the Routledge Companions in Business Management and Marketing (2020). Her latest project is in the historical fiction genre and set in the Caribbean Islands.