Education and Experience

Work

2025 – present    Associate Professor
.                              Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
.                              Medical University of South Carolina
.                              Charleston, SC

2021 – 2025 Assistant Professor
.                              Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
.                              Medical University of South Carolina
.                              Charleston, SC

2019 – 2021    T32 Post-doctoral fellow
.                              Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
.                              Purdue University
.                              West Lafayette, IN

Education

2019 Boston University, Sargent College Ph.D.
. Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

2012 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.S.
. Speech-Language Pathology

2010 The College of William and Mary B.A.
. History, Linguistics

Licensure

2021 – present Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist
. State of South Carolina

2013 – present Certificate of Clinical Competence
. Speech-Language Pathology, ASHA

2012 – 2023 Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist,
. State of Virginia

Clinical Experience

2012 – 2014     Speech-Language Pathologist
.                              Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU,
.                              Fredericksburg Therapy Center

Service to the Profession

Ongoing Ad hoc reviewer
. Developmental Science,
. Emotion and Cognition,
. First Language,
. Journal of Child Language,
. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders,
. Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry,
. Language Acquisition,
. Language Learning and Development

2025 Grant Reviewer
. Linguistics Program, National Science Foundation

2025 Grant Reviewer
. Student Research Grant
. in Early Childhood Language Development
. ASHFoundation

2025 – present Editorial Board member
. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

2023 Grant Reviewer
. Graduate Student Scholarship
. ASHFoundation

2020 – 2021 Editorial Board member
. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

2015 – 2018 Member and Chair
. Boston University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
. Colloquia Series planning team

2014– 2018 Student abstract pre-reviewer and volunteer
. Boston University Conference on Language Development
.

Service to the University

2025 – present Member, Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee
. College of Health Professions

2025 Reviewer
. Development and Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness
. Faculty Assembly, College of Health Professions

2023 – present Member, Research Council
. College of Health Professions

2022 – present Co-Chair and Member, Admissions Committee
. Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program

2022 – 2025 Member, Space Committee
. College of Health Professions

2022 Member, Search Committee for Chair
. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

2021 – 2022 Member, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Review
. College of Health Professions

2021 – 2022 Member, Search Committee for faculty member
. Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program

2022 Member, Search Committee for Division Director
. Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program

Teaching

2024 – Ongoing    Instructor
.                              SLP 628 Social Aspects of Communication
.                              Medical University of South Carolina

2022 – Ongoing    Instructor
.                              SLP 618 Birth to Five Child Language Disorders
.                              Medical University of South Carolina

2022 – 2023 Instructor
. SLP 619 School Age Language Disorders
. Medical University of South Carolina

2019         Co-Instructor
.                              SLHS 309/PSY 426 Language Development
.                              Purdue University

2018         Teaching Assistant
.                              SED LS560 Introduction to Language and
. Language Acquisition
.                              Boston University

2018         Lab Instructor
.                              SAR SH221 Phonetics
.                              Boston University

Mentorship

2025 – present Mentor to Alicia Escobedo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
. AARC (Advancing Academic-Research Careers) Program

2025 – present Mentor to Lindsey Sellers, undergraduate student
. Honors Project, College of Charleston

2024 – 2025 Post-doctoral advisor to Samantha Ghali, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
.                      T32 DC014435, “Interdisciplinary Research Training in
                     Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences”
                     PI: Judy Dubno, Ph.D.

2024 Mentor to Valeri Doleski, undergraduate student
. Honors Project, College of Charleston

2020 Mentor to Jaelyn Kelly, undergraduate student
. Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program
. Purdue University

2016 – 2017 Mentor to Elizabeth Schrimpf, M.S.-SLP Student
. Graduate Research Project, Boston University

2015 Mentor to Amulya Raju, high school student
. Research Internship in Science and Engineering Program
. Boston University