LaKeisha McClary is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at The George Washington University where she teaches Introductory Quantitative Analysis Laboratory, a writing-in-the-disciplines course for chemistry majors and minors that fulfills a graduation requirement. She received the 2020 WID Award for Best Assignment Design for the design-it-yourself project that is the hallmark of the course. In addition to teaching the laboratory, she also teaches general chemistry, organic chemistry, and a writing course for chemistry majors engaged in semesters-long undergraduate research. She served as the Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and is a member of the American Chemical Society. Her research exploring chemistry students’ thinking and reasoning has appeared in International Journal of Science Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Journal of Chemical Education.
