Dr. Michelle Lia is a Co-Director of the Greeley Center. She is a product of Catholic education from age 4 to 22. She worked in Catholic and public schools for 17 years as a classroom teacher and a reading specialist. 

Dr. Lia provides coaching and professional learning to educators in Chicago and across the country in these areas:

• instruction
• literacy
• curriculum
• Universal Design for Learning
• instructional coaching

For the Greeley Center. she also acts as a coach of the coaches and professional learning consultants  Dr. Lia teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate programs in the School of Education.