Daisha M. Merritt

Dr. Merritt is the current Associate Department Chair of the Department of Management and Technology in the COB at ERAU, World Wide. She began her career with James Madison University where she attained her doctorate in Strategic Leadership Studies through the College of Business. Previous to her academic life, she completed her MBA at Florida Gulf Coast University while working in Healthcare. Merritt worked both in healthcare administration and clinical health. This included dermatological surgery, healthcare administration, and migrant health education at both for-profit and non-profit locations. Additionally, Merritt has succeeded and failed in business endeavors, her most recent being a successful import business (closed in 2013) bringing handmade textiles directly from the artisan in southern Mexico to the United States. After completing her doctorate, Merritt taught as a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. her main areas of focus were Nonprofit Management and Experiential Education. During her last year there she was the Academic Liaison to the Center for Social Justice and Innovation. Merritt found her Riddle home ins 2018 in the College of Business, where she currently is faculty today. Recently, she has been delving further into online pedagogy teaching predominately in the online modality. While also taking on the leadership role of Associate Department Chair. Merritt offers pro-bono governance consulting to nonprofit organizations and continually coaches business students. Her research is focused on strategy in the nonprofit world, leadership development, and has a strong collaborative research branch in diaspora communities worldwide and the impacts of remittance giving. Merritt teaches numerous classes in the COB, specifically in the MSM, BTSM, and MSLD programs. If you have any questions or would like to connect, please email Dr. Merritt: [email protected]