Ginger G. Collins, PhD, CCC-SLP is a Professor in the School of Speech, Language, Hearing, and Occupational Sciences at the University of Montana where she also directs the MARVEL (Motivational Adolescent Research in Vocabulary & Expressive Literacy) Lab. Before initiating her doctoral program in communication sciences and disorders, Dr. Collins worked as a speech-language pathologist in a variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, rehabilitation centers, Head Start centers, home health, and early intervention programs. Her practical experiences have significantly influenced her desire to further clinical translational research. Dr. Collins has three primary lines of research. The first involves increasing motivation to foster engagement in literacy activities in adolescents with language/literacy deficits. The second involves effective interventions with morphological knowledge at the core to improve spelling, vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension with an emphasis on service delivery models. The third is in postsendary transition planning for students with language and literacy impairments and students who stutter. Dr. Collins is also beginning to explore the school-based speech-language pathologist’s role in interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline in students at-risk for adjudication secondary to language-literacy differences and/or deficits. Dr. Collins’s research has been supported through the U.S. Department of Education and the National Stuttering Association.