Meet CRELI Staff and Scholars

Culturally Responsive Early Literacy Intervention Staff and Scholars standing before a "We are all related" banner

Project Director (tribal affiliation): 

Matthew Gillispie, PhD, CCC-SLP (Muscogee Creek)

Email: wmg@ku.edu

Phone: 785-864-0643

Project Coordinator:

Joshuaa Allison-Burbank, MA, CCC-SLP

Email: jallison-burbank@kumc.edu

Phone: 785-864-0639

Current CRELI Scholars (tribal affiliation):

Elizabeth Doyne

Ashley Hopkin (Cherokee/Seminole)

Ginna Long (Osage)

Robyn Cairns

Megan Hill (Cherokee)

Jacqueline Schmitt

Sarah Tah

Recent CRELI Graduates (tribal affiliation)

Joshuaa Allison Burbank (Dine'/Acoma Pueblo) - 2015 graduate, CRELI Project Coordinator, current student in our PhD program

Jamie Crow (Seneca Cayuga of Oklahoma) - 2016 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Los Angeles

Kelley Nelson Strouts - 2016 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Kansas City, KS

Tzara Sidley - 2016 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Los Angeles

Jesse Smith (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) - 2016 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Alaska

Veronica Fox - 2017 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Kansas City

Colby Hagen (Crow Creek Sioux) - 2017 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Lawrence and Topeka, KS

Enaam Shull - 2017 graduate, speech-language pathologist in Kansas City

Erin Williams (Cherokee) - December 2017 graduate