Dr. April Conley is originally from Tazewell, Virginia. She graduated from East Carolina University in 1995. She obtained her Master of Science and Educational Specialist degrees in School Psychology from Radford University in 1998 and then moved to Greensboro, NC. In 2006, she earned a Masters degree in School Administration at North Carolina A&T University and then graduated from UNC-Greensboro with a doctorate in Educational Leadership in 2015. She worked in Guilford County Schools from 1998 to 2015, and began working in Gaston County Schools in 2015. 

Dr. Conley loves cooking and baking, reading, spending time with family or friends, and enjoying the outdoors.