Lakeya Omogun, Ph.D.

Lakeya Omogun received her Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Studies from UT Austin in 2021. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at The University of Washington. Her research explores the role of language, literacy, including digital literacies, in Black African immigrant youth identity constructions and negotiations across school, community, and digital spaces. She teaches graduate level and courses that focus on expanded understandings of language, literacy, and culture. She also prepares pre-service teachers to attend to sociocultural factors in their literacy teaching. Lakeya is the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Bilingual Education Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association.