Dr. Lakeisha Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Science and Disorders program at Florida State University and a certified speech-language pathologist. She is also the director of The Village, the community outreach and engagement division of the Florida Center for Reading Research. Her primary research interests include language, literacy, dialect, and executive function development in African American children. Dr. Johnson believes in building and leveraging research-practice partnerships to ensure children from vulnerable and underserved populations obtain strong language and literacy skills. She has a passion for diverse children's books and runs a website, Maya's Book Nook, to help caregivers and educators use these books to promote language and literacy foundations.

2008-2012 Ph.D., Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida. Communication Science and 

Disorders. Concentration: Literacy implications for culturally and linguistically diverse 

populations.

2006-2008 M.S., Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida. Communication Science and Disorders.

2002-2006 B.A., South Carolina State University. Orangeburg, South Carolina. Speech Pathology and Audiology.