Lisa Laurier
Adjunct Faculty
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
llaurier@whitworth.edu

Office Location: Dixon Hall

Lisa is a new faculty member in the School of Education at Whitworth University. She completed her Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in 2003. She also holds a master's degree in both English and educational psychology with an emphasis in school counseling.

She completed her B.A. in English and French from the University of Redlands in Southern California. Prior to joining the Whitworth faculty, Lisa was an adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona University for three and a half years. She has over ten years experience as a teacher at the elementary, middle and high school levels, as well as school counseling experience at the elementary and middle school levels.

Lisa's doctoral work focused on early literacy acquisition and she is teaching diagnosis and intervention of reading disabilities along with elementary instructional methods and social studies at Whitworth. Additional activities include co-chairing the Whitworth Writing Rally and sitting on the Advisory Board of Success by Six.