Our Team

Lab Director

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  Kimberly Crespo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

  Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Associate

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  Kaityn Contino

  Postdoctoral Associate

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  Haley Weaver

  Postdoctoral Associate

Doctoral Students

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  Malvika Khandelwal

  Third-year student

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  Anna Duncan

  Second-year student

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  Tianyi Liu

  First-year student

Graduate Research Assistants

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  Mia Shursky

  Master’s Thesis Student

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  Xinyue Yu

  First-Year MS-SLP Student

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  Hanah Kitamoto

  First-year MS-SLP student

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  Liz Pegram

  First-year MS-SLP student

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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  Julia Trejo

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  Justina Wang

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  Ximena Rios

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  Gabriela Obregon

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  Josie Pappone

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  Jasmine Sabol

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  Selina Dai

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

• Mercedes “Mercy” Valladares (Volunteer)
• Alexandra “Alex” Kcomt (Volunteer)
• Rachel Norotsky
• Gabby Rushi (Master’s Thesis Student)
• Melanie Thomas (Research Assistant)
• Madeline Sabin (Research Assistant)
• Marlene Chávez Corona
• Zoe Devine (Research Assistant and Voice of the Lab)
• Estefanía Narváez (Master’s Thesis Student)

Undergraduate Students

• Kayla Ji
• Rafiyat Adenlola
• Gabriela Behar
• Paola Belsol
• Kelly Clougher
• Saman B-Razavi
• Renzo Quintero (Summer 2023 UROP Scholar)
• Delainie Perez
• Nicole Becerra
• Paulina Villanueva Salcedo
• Tingyu He
• Melanie Criollo-Landi
• Juana Bustos Martin

Laboratory Staff

• Pau Cuadrado (Lab Manager)

Visiting Members

• Sarah Bunyan (NC A&T State University-Summer Internship 2025)
• Janelle Beth Flores, MS, CCC-SLP, University of Houston
• Derron McQuitty (NC A&T State University-Summer Internship 2024)
• Camden Waterhouse

Interested in getting involved with our lab’s work? Check out our open positions!