Dr. Jocelyn Smith Gray is the Interim Associate Dean & Department Chair, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Elementary Education Middle Grades Reading Special Education Department in the College of Education at Fayetteville State University. She has been instructing Birth through Kindergarten Education majors since August 2011. Before coming to Fayetteville State University, she spent 13 years working in Early Childhood Education, holding various positions. Dr. Smith Gray completed her undergraduate degree in Birth to Kindergarten Education at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and received her Masters' in Education specializing in Early Childhood Education at Ashford University. She received her Ed.D. from Fayetteville State University in Educational Leadership Higher Education.