{"id":313,"date":"2022-10-03T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/?page_id=313"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:04:00","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lab Director<\/h3>\n\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-284 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/kimberly-crespo-ph-d-ccc-slp\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2022\/09\/Crespo_headshot_small_cropped-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Kimberly Crespo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Principal Investigator<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Postdoctoral Associate<\/h3>\n\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-927 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/kaityn-contino\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2024\/10\/kaityn-headshot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Kaityn Contino<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Postdoctoral Associate<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1416 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/haley-weaver\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2025\/09\/IMG_0684-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Haley Weaver<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Postdoctoral Associate<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Doctoral Students<\/h3>\n<p><span>\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-581 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/malvika-khandelwal\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2023\/09\/Khandelwal_HeadShot_2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Malvika Khandelwal<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Third-year student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-868 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/anna-duncan\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2024\/09\/anna-website-picture-cropped-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Anna Duncan<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Second-year student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1263 profile type-profile 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height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2024\/09\/Mia-picture-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Mia Shursky<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Master&#8217;s Thesis Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1484 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/our-team\/xinyue-yu\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/crespolab\/files\/2026\/02\/Profie-Pic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Xinyue Yu<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">First-Year MS-SLP Student<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1491 profile type-profile 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UROP Scholar)<\/li>\n<li>Delainie Perez<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Becerra<\/li>\n<li>Paulina Villanueva Salcedo<\/li>\n<li>Tingyu He<\/li>\n<li>Melanie Criollo-Landi<\/li>\n<li>Juana Bustos Martin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Laboratory Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pau Cuadrado (Lab Manager)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Visiting Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Bunyan (NC A&amp;T State University-Summer Internship 2025)<\/li>\n<li><span>Janelle Beth Flores, MS, CCC-SLP, University of Houston<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Derron McQuitty (NC A&amp;T State University-Summer Internship 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Camden Waterhouse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interested in getting involved with our lab&#8217;s work? Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/contact-us-2\/open-positions\/\">open positions<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab Director Postdoctoral Associate Doctoral Students Graduate Research Assistants Undergraduate Research Assistants Lab Alumni Graduate Students Mercedes &#8220;Mercy&#8221; Valladares (Volunteer) Alexandra &#8220;Alex&#8221; Kcomt (Volunteer) Rachel Norotsky Gabby Rushi (Master\u2019s Thesis Student) Melanie Thomas (Research Assistant) Madeline Sabin (Research Assistant) Marlene Ch\u00e1vez Corona Zoe Devine (Research Assistant and Voice of the Lab) Estefan\u00eda Narv\u00e1ez (Master&#8217;s Thesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21498,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crespolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}