Summer Zoom Series: Diversity and Inclusion in the Field of Audiology

Join our three guest panelists, who will lead a discussion on increasing diversity within the MAA and the practice of audiology as a whole. We will begin with some prepared questions and we encourage attendees to e-mail additional questions ahead of time to bockx046@gmail.com.

Panelists
Eva Lopez, Au.D.
Bilingual Cochlear Implant Consumer Specialist
Eva was born and raised in Chicago. Her family is from Guatemala. She attended Penn State University for her undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders, where she worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Bilingual Phonology Lab. She then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her Doctorate of Audiology and worked as a graduate research assistant in the Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab. Before joining AB, Eva was a clinical audiologist in Chicago working with primarily Spanish speaking patients in private practice.
 
As a native Spanish speaker, Eva noticed a lack of Spanish language resources in audiology and became passionate that she wanted to be able to provide all of her patients with the same resources to help them make informed decisions. For this reason, Eva joined AB to help create Spanish language resources as well as educate and support families in their native language and in a culturally competent manner.

Brittney Sprouse, Au.D.
Brittney is the director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing as well as a pediatric audiologist at The University of Chicago Medical Center. She received her Doctorate in Audiology from the Northeast Ohio Au.D. Consortium (University of Akron) in 2009. Brittney's clinical interests includes; electrophysiology; cochlear implants; ototoxicity monitoring; early intervention; outreach and education. She is actively involved on the state and national level in Audiology through her service on committees and boards. She is the past President for the Ohio Academy of Audiology and the Illinois Academy of Audiology.

Jocelyn Tubbs, Au.D.
Jocelyn is an audiologist in private practice in Las Vegas. She earned her bachelor’s of science in Communication Disorders  at Bowling Green State University. She then attended Pacific University where she completed her Doctorate of Audiology. She has such a fiery passion for audiology that she wrote a children’s book, A Sound Adventure, to help teach younger generations and their parents how hearing works. Jocelyn also has a passion for justice for minorities. She was recently on a Facebook live panel to discuss the hardships and discrimination many Black and People of Color face as audiologists and in the healthcare field in general. Her goal is to help increase representation among leadership roles within audiology, and to inspire others to do the same.

Note: If you can't join us live on Zoom, the session will be recorded and shared with all MAA members at a later date.