Lexi Wilkinson began her UT Knoxville Specialist in Education degree in the summer term 2023. She was recently recognized as the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department’s “Emerging Scholar/Practitioner Award” for the Educational Administration EdS pathway. Lexi earned her BS in Education, Special Education/Deaf, Hard of Hearing and her MS in Education, Deaf & Hard of Hearing from UT Knoxville. She currently works at the TN School for the Deaf, Knoxville where he serves as Interim High School Principal.