Dr. ShaLonda Wilcott Adams is the Principal of the Pine Tree ISD PACE Alternative Campus in Longview, Texas. The PACE Campus focuses on empowering students to become stronger versions of themselves upon program completion. Shalonda believes that ‘healing the hearts of the students… before they become hurting adults’ is essential to the holistic process of learning and growing.

Shalonda has been married to Larry W. Adams, Sr. since 1995. They have a blended family of three sons, one daughter, seven grandsons and one granddaughter.

Shalonda has worked diligently to promote youth non-violence throughout her community, primarily through the co-facilitation of the Partners in Prevention “Hope for Youth” Initiative. Hope for Youth was birthed in response to a succession of youth murders associated with gang violence.

Shalonda has been named the Pine Tree PACE Campus Teacher of the Year, Partners in Prevention Volunteer of the Year, Longview News Journal Citizen of the Year (Hope for Youth), Star Over Longview for January 2019, Pine Tree Black History Month Legacy Award. She was honored to grace the cover of the CHARM Magazine for March/April 2019 and Women Today in 2023.

Shalonda holds a Doctorate in Education Administration for Teaching & Learning and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Texas at Tyler. She is currently pursuing a Master's in Professional Clinical Counseling. Dr. Adams is trained in Restorative Discipline Practices (TEA). She is also a Certified Life Coach.

She is an avid member of many organizations that serve the local community and beyond. Her most notable and current volunteerisms include: Greater Longview United Way Board President, Workforce Solutions of East Texas (WSET) Board Member, EDH Basketball Foundation Board Member, Longview Teen Court Board Member, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Big Pines Board Advisory Council, The Rotary Club of Longview Member, and True  Vision Ministries Associate Minister (Teen Sunday School/Youth Dept).

Professional Educational Memberships: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals (Legislative Committee Member), Texas Association of Alternative Education (TAAE), Delta Kappa Gamma Society International-Kappa Mu Chapter Past President

She delights in being a passionate presenter to a multiplicity of audiences with the primary goal of ‘teaching others how to care for the children”.