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Dr. Lee-Johnson is the Director of Ed.D. at Webster University. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education. As a first generation immigrant from Hong Kong, she is dedicated to serving the minoritized populations via research, teaching, advising, and service. Lee-Johnson has research experiences in international educational settings, including China, Hong Kong, Italy, Taiwan, and the United States. For example, her research study with 11 researchers in Reggio Emilia, Italy, resulted in an upcoming book on affirming the rights for emergent bi- and multilingual language learners. Some of the highlights of her works include a $2.7 million National Professional Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Education as a Co-PI, an invited speaker at a Harvard Conference in 2021, and an invited guest editor for Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. Her research interests include critical pedagogy, discourse analysis, Bakhtinian theories, and teacher education in K-12 public schools. As an educational researcher, Lee-Johnson aspires to become a voice and advocate for transforming the status quo for minoritized populations in the educational systems of the world.
Media Coverage:
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Flewellen, V. (May 11, 2021) Critical Race Theory. St Louis NPR: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2021-05-11/critical-race-theory-explained
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Flewellen, V. (May 3, 2021). KSDK News (TV interview). https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/education/explaining-critical-race-theory-causing-stir-schools-across-country/63-75fe7982-8613-4555-b519-d1a7a85be20e
Panelist at Webster Speaks: We are not a virus: Anti-Asian hate in the U.S. April 28, 2021. (https://www.webster.edu/diversity-inclusion/webster-speaks.php)
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). We are not a virus. Podcast. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628212/8195818?fbclid=IwAR31NGlwj6g_SJAc2J65uKMIqEYh4nBTfxm8YI2WkXUi_S8pS51OvEN-4FY
Program Director
Program Director
Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Ph.D.
Selected Publications:
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Iaiennaro, T., Clay, J., Imomov, O., Boltaeva, R., Zhang, J. (2025) Transforming dissertations into global & career-advancement-centered doctoral digital portfolios: Interweaving research rigor with social media dissemination. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming
Professional Practice (CPED Journal), 10(3), 45-52. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2025.506
Lee-Johnson, Y. L., Fair, K., O’Connor, K., Rodney, T., Ono, J., & Dixon, T. (2023). Reflexivity for Restorying the Ontological and Epistemological Truths in Qualitative Research. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice (CPED Journal), 8(4), 43–49. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2023.339
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2023). When immigrant mothers of color become public school teachers for English language learners: Intersectionality for transformative teacher preparation. TESOL Quarterly, 57(4),1066-1090. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3171
Lee-Johnson, Y. L. (2023). Whitewashedness in teacher education: Intertextuality between colorblindness and
the Ferguson event. Urban Education, 58(3), 518–546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919857803
Recent Conference Presentations:
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2025). Unmuting Global Ontologies: International Students' Counterstories for Reclaiming Epistemic Justice. CPED 2025 Annual Convening Philadelphia, PA. October 22-24.
Fyfle, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Yu, G., and Reyes, J. (2025). Constructing a Critical Constructivist Resistance Movement (CCRM). Association for Constructivist Teaching. October 10-11. Costa Mesa, CA.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Iaiennaro, T., Smith, E., Jackson, A. (2024). Huliau: Reframing Transformative Learning with an Anti-Colonialist Lens Among EdD Candidates. CPED 2024 Annual Convening. Honolulu, Hawaii. October 14-17.
Reyes, J., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Yu., G., and Fyfe, B. (2024). Confronting the Raciolinguistic Injustices Recycled in Early Childhood Spaces: Advocating with a Feminist-Abolitionist Approach. 90-minute Symposium. AERA 2024 Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 11-14.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Fair, K., Ono, J., Rodney, T. (2024). Interweaving Intersectional Biographical Vignettes into Qualitative Research as Reflexivity Tools. 90-minute Peer-reviewed Workshop. AERA 2024 Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 11-14.
Awards and Honors:
2025 Fulbright Grant Awardee
2023-24 AERA AAPI-ER Conference Program Co-Chair
2021 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2017 Women of Webster Award
2017 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2016 Diverse Issues in Higher Education’s Emerging Scholar
of the Year Nominee
2015 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2014 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2012 Flesher Fellowship
2012 Dorothy D. Scrivener Memorial Scholarship
2011 College of Education and Human Ecology Travel Award
2011 Ray Travel Award
Full Time Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Anne Geraghty Rathert, J.D.
Basiyr Rodney, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Paula Witkowski , Ph.D. - recent scholarship
Rena Rockwell, Ed.D. (CV)
Stephanie Mahfood, Ph.D. - recent scholarship
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Brenda Fyfe, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Ginny Altrogge, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Jennifer Ono, Ed.D.
Katherine O'Connor, Ed.D.
Kevin Gitonga, Ph.D.
Jonathon Singler, Ed.D.
Marshaun Warren, Ph.D.
Roy Tamashiro, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Tyrone McNichols, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Victoria McMullen, Ph.D. - recent scholarship
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