National NSSLHA Announces 2024-2025 Executive Council
ROCKVILLE, MD – July 1, 2024 – The National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (National NSSLHA) today announced its 2024-2025 Executive Council. The Executive Council represents students pursuing degrees in the fields of communication sciences and disorders (CSD). They govern over National NSSLHA’s programmatic and administrative policies, including the strategic plan and budget, and represent the student voice on various committees of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
National NSSLHA is an organization of nearly 11,000 domestic and international student members studying CSD, speech-language pathology and audiology at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and more than 350 chapters at colleges and universities across the U.S.
During the 2024-2025 term, the Executive Council will be keenly focused on accomplishing the goals and objectives defined in its 2024-2026 strategic plan, which includes developing a culture and foster a community that actively prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion; strengthening connections between National NSSLHA and campus chapters while empowering advocacy and outreach; and cultivate cooperative relationships with CSD-related organizations and industry partners.
They also will continue the momentum of success and impact over the last four years through the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Action (IDEA) Work Group, hosting events and developing resources on key Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics, collaborating with other associations representing the CSD community, and legislative advocacy.
“I’m very excited to see what our team accomplishes this year—they are full of great ideas to equip NSSLHA members to build successful futures,” said NSSLHA President Aivy Nguyen, an speech-language pathology student at the University of Washington.
Members of the 2024-2025 National NSSLHA Executive Council are:
- Aivy Nguyen, President—speech-language pathology graduate student, University of Washington
- Allison Tran, President-Elect— audiology doctoral student, San Jose State University
- Bridget Slagle, Vice President for Finance—speech-language pathology graduate student, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Anna French, Vice President for Academic Affairs—speech-language pathology graduate student, Radford University
- Chanel Hudson, Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy—audiology doctoral student, University at Buffalo
- George “Ged” Pearson, Vice President for Planning—audiology doctoral student, University of Texas at Austin
- Katherine Kingsbury, Vice President for Programming (Audiology)—audiology doctoral student, University of Iowa
- Kennedy Wilkins, Vice President for Programming (Speech-Language Pathology)—speech-language pathology graduate student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Carolyn Sinak, Vice President for Student State Officers (Central Region)—speech-language pathology graduate student, Maryville University
- Aliyah Hodges, Vice President for Student State Officers (Northeastern Region)—speech-language pathology graduate student, Buffalo State University
- Lily Jones, Vice President for Student State Officers (Southern Region)—audiology doctoral student, University of Arkansas
- Lucy Carvalho, Vice President for Student State Officers (Western Region)—speech-language pathology graduate student at California State University, Long Beach
About NSSLHA
NSSLHA is the only national student organization for pre-professionals studying CSD recognized by ASHA. Established in 1972, National NSSLHA is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, and supports nearly 11,000 members and more than 350 chapters at colleges and universities across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
About the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 228,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology assistants; and students.