{"id":1766,"date":"2025-08-13T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/?page_id=1766"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:39:18","slug":"mackenzie-pearce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/directory\/mackenzie-pearce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Pearce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/Mack-Pearce-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2995\" style=\"width:391px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/Mack-Pearce-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/Mack-Pearce-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/Mack-Pearce-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/Mack-Pearce-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/Mack-Pearce-2048x1434.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Contact:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Office: EDHS 106<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:mpearce@muw.edu\">mpearce@muw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone: (662) 241-6386<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Bio:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mackenzie Pearce serves as Project Coordinator for the Office of Early Childhood and the Wise Start initiative at Mississippi University for Women\u2019s Center for Education Support. In this role, she manages the daily operations of early childhood programming, supports the Excel by 5 certification process for Columbus-Lowndes County, and fosters collaboration among educators, families, and community partners to strengthen local early learning systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mackenzie brings a background in nonprofit development, policy, and community engagement to her work. Before joining MUW, she served with the Women\u2019s Foundation of Alabama, Vote Run Lead, and the Mississippi Senate Study Group on Women, Children, and Families\u2014experiences that deepened her commitment to elevating overlooked voices and connecting people and resources to strengthen communities often left out of the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known to her CES team as \u201cthe last Girl Scout,\u201d Mackenzie can often be found in her office on the first floor of EDHS, finding creative solutions to the day\u2019s needs while singing along to her newest Spotify playlist. Mackenzie takes pride in keeping the first floor smiling and laughing. no matter how busy the week is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her spare time, Mackenzie loves cheering on her favorite football and basketball teams, reading, and joining trivia nights with friends\u2014when she\u2019s not being taken for a walk around campus by her standard Goldendoodle, Walter, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Community Involvement:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Member, Mississippi Early Childhood Association (MsECA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Member, Mississippi Early Childhood Development Coalition (ECDC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Member at Large, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Education:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B.S. in Political Science (Nonprofit Advocacy), Mississippi University for Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Office: EDHS 106 Email: mpearce@muw.edu Phone: (662) 241-6386 Bio: Mackenzie Pearce serves as Project Coordinator for the Office of Early Childhood and the Wise Start initiative at Mississippi University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions\/2996"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}