Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D. Co-PI

Daphne Greenberg is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Learning Sciences at Georgia State University. She is also the Director of the Adult Literacy Research Center in GSU’s College of Education and Human Development. Her primary research interests focus on adults who have difficulty reading. She has published and presented in diverse peer-reviewed journals and conference venues focusing on practitioners, policymakers, and/or researchers in areas such as health literacy, family literacy, reading components, and reading interventions. Funding for her research has come from varied local, foundation, university, and federal funding sources, such as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; US Department of Education; Institute of Educational Sciences; Centers of Disease Control and Prevention; the Komen Foundation; Pfizer Foundation; and the Department of Defense. She has tutored native and non-native English-speaking adults and has helped communities organize and develop adult literacy programs and she has a long-standing mutually productive partnership with Metro-Atlanta adult literacy programs.