Heather Murphy, EdM, is a research coordinator for the UCSF Dyslexia Center's Multitudes project. She is interested in research-practice partnerships that drive toward improved reading outcomes for children historically underserved by the education system. Prior to UCSF, she was an education practitioner, serving for 18 years as a K-6 instructional coach, reading specialist, literacy and math interventionist, and general and special education teacher in Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA; and San Francisco, CA. Heather's graduate studies at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Health Professions focused on language acquisition and literacy development. During and after grad school, she was a research assistant for three reading comprehension studies out of the READS Lab at Harvard (Dr. James Kim) and the CCDD project at Strategic Education Research Partnership (Dr. Catherine Snow).