Lisa M. López, Ph.D.

Lisa M. López, Ph.D.

Lisa M. López, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Psychology at University of South Florida. Her research agenda involves furthering our understanding of, and improving upon, the educational and environmental opportunities of Latine DLL children in the U.S. Her research has been funded by NIH, IES, and ACF, and published in journals focused on both education and developmental psychology. She has won numerous awards for her scholarly and community work with the Latine DLL population. In 2020, she published her first book, which highlights effective, research‐based, home and classroom practices for working with DLLs, providing practical strategies geared towards the implementation of culturally and linguistically responsive instruction within early childhood classrooms.