Phil Hunsberger, Ed.D.
Senior Consultant
Dr. Phil Hunsberger is co-owner and Senior Facilitator for Educational Equity Consultants (EEC). From 1971 until 1998, Dr. Hunsberger served as a teacher, principal, and central office administrator in the Sterling Unit #5 School District. In 1998, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) selected Dr. Hunsberger for reform work throughout the State. His last educational assignment from 1999 - 2005 with the ISBE was the Executive Director of the Metro East Consortium for Child Advocacy (MECCA), a partnership of six Illinois School Districts that included East St. Louis, Cahokia, Madison, Dupo, Venice and Brooklyn. MECCA provided professional development for these districts in the areas of literacy, school leadership, mentoring, and social justice advocacy for teaching and leading.
Dr. Hunsberger also served as the Coordinator of the Illinois State Board of Education RESPRO Region V grant. This initiative provided professional development for schools not reaching adequately yearly progress (AYP) in a sixteen county areas of southern Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Science in Education and his Master in Science in Educational Administration from Northern Illinois University. His doctorate in Educational Leadership from National-Louis University, Wheaton Campus. In 1994, the National Association of Elementary School Principals selected Phil as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois. He has served as the Director of the International Network of Principals’ Centers and has presented for school districts and leadership centers throughout the country.
For the past fifteen years, Dr. Hunsberger through EEC. has chased his passion regarding social justice advocacy and anti-racist work. Most recently, he authored: Becoming a Social Justice Leader; Using Head, Heart, and Hands to Dismantle Oppression, Routledge Press, 2016.