Biography

Kayon Murray-Johnson, Ph.D., is a scholar-practitioner whose expertise spans teaching, training and instructional design contexts within the broad field of adult learning and education. Her current scholarship examines challenges and best practices for critical dialogues on race, ethnicity and racism, for faculty development – and for inclusive, equity focused teaching. Dr. Murray-Johnson’s work in teaching and research have yielded key accolades, to include:

• The Christine A Stanley Diversity and Inclusion Research Award (POD Network, 2019)
• The University of Rhode Island’s Teaching Excellence Award (2021)
• The Carlos J. Vellejos Memorial Award for Emerging Scholarship (Multicultural Education SIG – American Educational Research Association, 2023).

She remains passionate about working with individuals and groups who are invested in sustainable solutions to equity challenges in diverse learning contexts. To that end, she is often sought out to lead strategic discussions and workshops around equity focused teaching and leadership. Alongside her work as an educator of adults, she finds significant enjoyment in designing (anything new:), quality conversation, inspirational music, travel, and coining interesting phrases that make you go “hmmm.”