Megan Panatier

Megan, MS, CCC-SLP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and a Board Member of the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California (CLCSC). She holds a BA in Language Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2001), and earned her MS in Communication Disorders and Sciences from California State University, Northridge (2006). Her global teaching experience includes English instruction in France through the CIEP program (1999) and in Japan via the JET Program (2002). Megan is passionate about literacy, language, and public access to education—frequenting her local libraries with her five-year-old daughter and sharing reflections through her blog, *publiclibraryjourney.com*.