Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Pace University
Kyomi Gregory-Martin has been a practicing speech-language pathologist for the last 15 years working with both children and adults. Gregory-Martin worked for the New York City Board of Education in Brooklyn, NY prior to entering her Ph.D. program. In addition to her undergraduate degree major, she completed a double minor in black studies and linguistics from SUNY New Paltz. She obtained her master’s degree at the University of Buffalo and her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her Ph.D. thesis examined children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds that speak non-mainstream dialects such as African American English and Southern White English and explored the use of teacher ratings.
In 2014, she started attending training at Dialogue on Race Louisiana and became a trained facilitator during the trial for Trayvon Martin where she facilitated a dialogue on race between teens and the Baton Rouge police department. She currently serves on the board of directors for the National Black Association of Speech-Language-Hearing (NBASLH) and works with the mentorship program. She is also the topic area expert in non-mainstream dialects, cultural humility, and awareness for The Informed SLP.
