{"id":13,"date":"2020-12-17T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:10:25","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LERA is comprised of college\/university faculty, early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary teachers, school leaders, and educational stakeholders that support and advocate for high quality scholarship and research in education. LERA is an active state affiliate of the American Educational Research Association (national) and the Mid-South Educational Research Association (regional).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Min-Seok Choi<br \/>\nCo-Past President<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jungmin Lee<br \/>\nCo-Past President<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tiffini Brigola<br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Allison Comeaux<br \/>\nVice-President and Program Chair<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Laura B. Norman<br \/>\nSecretary<br \/>\n<em>Northwestern State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Elmore<br \/>\nAt-large Representative<br \/>\n<em>Northwestern State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hislop<br \/>\nAt-large Representative<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christy Hornsby<br \/>\nHigher Education Representative<br \/>\n<em>Northwestern State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rachel A. Hattaway<br \/>\nLocal Education Agency Representative<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana Monroe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Linda Fairchild<br \/>\nWebmaster and Social Media Manager<br \/>\n<em>McNeese State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Robertson-Hornsby<br \/>\nManaging Editor, Research Issues in Contemporary Education<br \/>\n<em>Southern University at New Orleans<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Keefer<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\n<em>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LERA is comprised of college\/university faculty, early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary teachers, school leaders, and educational stakeholders that support<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leraweb.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}