Dr. S. Virginia Gonsalves-Domond is a Full Professor of Social/Personality Psychology who has been an academician for 45 years. She has taught at Bates College and Sarah Lawrence College. Having been a Mental Health Consultant for Head Start for over 25 years, she has provided direct interventions to special needs children and their families, and has successfully authored over $15.9 million in Head Start grants. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, and was selected by her peers at Ramapo College for the prestigious Henry Bischoff Excellence in Teaching Award. More recently, she was nominated for the Cherry Award for Teaching Excellence at Baylor University in 2024.

Dr. Gonsalves-Domond is an accomplished and published author, Book Reviewer, Grants Writer, Head Start Trainer/Facilitator/Workshop Leader, and poetess. She enjoys reading, singing, museum-visiting, travelling, and the theater. Dr. Gonsalves-Domond published the following children’s books: Alliterative Animals: A to Z (Dorrance Publishing Company, 2021); Stella, the Stealthy, Stellar Squirrel in Spartanasha (Dorrance Publishing, 2023); and Laci, the Largemouth Bass (Archway Publishers, 2023). Books 4, 5, and 6 were published by Innovative Ink in 2024 (a division of Kendall Hunt). The titles of these new publications are: Ophelia, the Happy Elf Owl and Idony, the Birthday Iguana (winner of the 2026 Regal Summit Award in the Children’s Category), and Sydney, the Snake in a Bodega Town, (winner of the 2026 Regal Summit Award, Children’s Middle GradeCategory) Caribbean Islands: A to Z is Dr. Gonsalves-Domond’s seventh children’s book.

Dr. Gonsalves-Domond was a Visiting Professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy in 2021. In summer 2022, she obtained a Nippon Foundation Fellowship at the Japanese Studies Institute at San Diego State University. Dr. Gonsalves-Domond loves writing children’s narratives