Sarah received an undergraduate degree and PhD in Speech and Hearing Science from The Ohio State University in 2009 and 2016, respectively. She was a Presidential Fellow at Ohio State from 2015-2016. After completing her PhD, she was an Assistant Professor and Division Chair of Audiology in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University until 2021. Sarah’s research interests include speech perception in the normal and impaired ear, the impacts of background noise on speech intelligibility, and the intersection between disordered speech and disordered hearing. She has previously served as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. She currently teaches the undergraduate Introduction to the Art and Science of Sound course.