Dr. Doris Walker-Dalhouse has been elected Vice President-Elect of the Literacy Research Association (LRA). She will serve as Vice-President-elect, Vice- President, President-elect, President, and Past-President, beginning in December 2020.

Over the past 19 years, Dr. Walker-Dalhouse has served LRA in the following capacities:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Co-chair of the Race, Ethnicity, and Multilingualism Committee
• Chair of the Outstanding Student Award Committee
  
• Member of the Outstanding Student Research Award Committee
  
• Member of the Fry Book Award Committee
  
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Literacy Research
  
• Co-chair Area 8: Literacy Learning & Practice in Multilingual and Multicultural Settings 
  
• Co-chair of the Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction Study Group