Dr. Kathryn Lee’s professional experience as a secondary public school teacher, clinical therapist (child/adolescent/adult clinical programs), and public school counselor (elementary and secondary) reinforces and underpins her basic philosophy that we must be responsive to individual student needs in the classroom. Her current emphasis as a teacher educator is preparing pre-service and practicing teachers to be empathic and responsive to all students’ needs, including those who are routinely marginalized because of their ethnicity, language, gender, socio-economic status, religious belief, disability, and/or sexual orientation. Her research investigates instructional strategies best suited to meet the educational needs of an increasingly diverse student population, including adult online learners. Her research has the added benefit of informing and improving her own teaching practice while representing what she believes is a valuable contribution to the field.