Alumna Kia Noelle Johnson (’00) was the commencement speaker, May 11. Johnson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is director of the Atlanta satellite of The University of Texas at Austin’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research, a clinical research institute with the mission to change the world for people who stutter. During her time at Truman, Johnson was involved with the Ronald E. McNair Scholar Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She and her husband Deric Dejuan Johnson, a 2000 graduate, have three children, Sydney, Chase and Deric Josiah.