Pat Edwards is a professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University. She is the author of two nationally acclaimed family literacy programs: Parents as Partners in Reading: A Family Literacy Training Program and Talking Your Way to Literacy: A Program to Help Nonreading Parents Prepare Their Children for Reading. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association from May 1998 to May 2001 and now serves as the President-Elect of the National Reading Conference. She also participated in the UNESCO World Symposium on Family Literacy as one of 50 researchers contributing to the development of world policy on family literacy.
