Resha Conroy, MPA, MS, CCC-SLP, is the founder and Executive Director of the Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children (DABC), a national organization focused on advancing literacy justice and addressing the amplified inequities experienced by Black children with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences.
A speech-language pathologist, systems architect, and framework developer, Ms. Conroy’s work sits at the intersection of language, literacy, resilience science, executive functioning, family systems, and educational equity. Drawing from both professional expertise and lived experience as the mother of two children with learning disabilities, including a son with dyslexia, she develops interdisciplinary frameworks and implementation models designed to strengthen equitable literacy access, family protective capacity, and systems transformation.
Ms. Conroy is the developer of the ALIGN Framework™, a literacy justice and systems redesign framework that supports schools, educators, and organizations in building equitable literacy systems through implementation infrastructure, family partnership, and leadership development. She is also the developer of the Language-Mediated Generative & Protective Family Capacity Framework™, a resilience-informed framework exploring how language, co-regulation, identity affirmation, and advocacy practices within families function as protective mechanisms for children with dyslexia and other learning differences.
With more than a decade of experience in education and nonprofit leadership, Ms. Conroy has served on school leadership teams and consulted with schools and organizations in Washington, DC, and New York City on literacy, family engagement, language-based learning differences, and systems-level educational design.
Ms. Conroy serves on the National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL) Family Engagement Advisory Board, the NYC Department of Education Literacy Advisory Council, the Learning Ally National Advisory Board, the Evidence Advocacy Center (EAC) Parent and Family Advocacy Team, the New York State Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Task Force (2024), and the EdTrust Literacy Advisory Council.