Rate My Professor Dara Byrne

Byrne earned her PhD in rhetoric and intercultural communication from Howard University, along with a Rockefeller Foundation Residency Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean. She holds a master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is completing a master’s thesis in emergency management at John Jay College. During her tenure at John Jay, she secured over $15 million in funding, increased the graduation rate by 16 percent in five years, and developed partnerships with organizations including Google, Bank of New York Mellon, Robin Hood Foundation, and DataKind. Her work on AI and student success has been featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Hechinger News, Google Policy Forum, and The New York Times. In 2024, she was named a Trailblazer in Higher Education by City & State New York. She serves on boards including the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Howard University’s Graduate School Board of Visitors, the New York City Education and Training Coalition, the Valley Health Hospital System’s President’s Council, and the Women’s Forum of New York.