Lakisha L. Simmons, Ph.D.

Lakisha received her doctoral degree from the Department of Management Information Systems at The University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Lakisha has conducted and published research in the areas of virtual and electronic commerce issues, technological innovation in education, international and cross-cultural IT issues, and future directives of the Web. As a research assistant for the Int'l Center for IT and Development she is responsible for research and development assistance in The ICT University and support of the annual International Conference on ICT for Africa. She has presented her work at conferences such as The Academy of Management and Decision Sciences Institute. Her work is published or forthcoming in MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Int’l Journal of Business and Systems Research, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Issues in Information Systems, and Translation Journal.

Lakisha's success is heavily supported by The PhD Project where she holds the office of Past President of The Information Systems Doctoral Student Association (ISDSA). She is also a member of Association for Information Systems (AIS) and Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). In her personal time, Lakisha Simmons enjoys traveling, working as a Couples Ministry Leader at her church and spending time with her family.