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Tim Schut was raised on a farm near Chester, South Dakota. After graduating from Chester High School, Tim pursued a degree in Marketing at Northern State University. After college, Tim has worked as a collector, a business development analyst, an inbound call center manager, a Financial Advisor, and a Private Banking Manager. Tim currently serves as a commercial real estate agent with NAI Sioux Falls and as a residential real estate agent with Signature Realty out of Madison, South Dakota. In June of 2021, Tim was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech (PPAOS). Family relationships and support have been important to Tim to keep living his fullest life as his condition progresses.

Margaret Lehman Blake is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston. Her research focuses on cognitive-communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage to understand the underlying deficits and to develop treatments. She is the author of The Right Hemisphere and Disorders of Cognition and Communication and the co-creator of RightHemisphere.org, a website designed to provide education and resources to patients, families, and clinicians.

Shannon M. Sheppard is an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Chapman University and Director of the Cognition Rehabilitation And Neuroscience In Atypical Language Lab, the CRANIAL Lab. Her research focuses on investigating linguistic and prosodic deficits following left-hemisphere and right-hemisphere stroke using brain imaging including EEG and MRI. She is a founding member of the International Right Hemisphere Collaborative, which was founded to improve knowledge of and research for individuals with right hemisphere brain damage.

Peter Meulenbroek, PhD, CCC-SLP, uses sociolinguistic description and theory about talk at work to develop new ways to assess and treat persons with TBI who hope to return to stable employment. He runs the Social Communication and Cognitive Abilities Lab where he has developed online assessment and treatment tools for social communication deficits after TBI. He is interested in increasing life participation after brain injury through employment and volunteer options. At the time of this interview, he was the chair of the ANCDS Writing Group for Traumatic Brain Injury and is currently the Editor for SIG2 Perspectives Journal as well as Assistant professor at The University of Kentucky.

Nayiri Adessian is a licensed and certified speech language pathologist who earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science from Montclair State University and her Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences from California State University, Northridge in May 2018. Nayiri completed her clinical fellowship at Nancy Sedat and Associates, an out-patient private practice, and continues to work there as a therapist. She evaluates and treats patients with adult neurogenic communication, voice and swallowing disorders. She has a special interest in working with individuals with aphasia.

Zack DeWall is a clinical fellow in speech pathology at the Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute within the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his master’s degree in speech pathology from Vanderbilt University in August of 2019

Hillary X. Enclade is currently a speech-language pathologist at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. She received her master’s degree in communicative disorders from California State University, Northridge in Spring of 2018 and completed a clinical fellowship at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center in August 2019.

Brendan Constantine is a nationally recognized poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many of the nation’s poetry standards, including Best American Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and Poem-a-Day.

His first book, ‘Letters to Guns’ (2009 Red Hen Press) received wide acclaim and is now taught in schools across the country. His most recent collections are ‘Dementia, My Darling’ (2016) from Red Hen Press, and a chapbook ‘Bouncy Bounce’ (2018) from Blue Horse Press.

Mr. Constantine has received support and commissions from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on TED ED, NPR's All Things Considered, KPFK's Poet’s Café, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently teaches at the Windward School.

“The Opposites Game” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO6527S5JOU

Brendan Constantine reads at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplyVOXWwfM

"The Translation" by Brendan Constantine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RZ0-I9hG9c

Ronda Winans-Mitrik, MA, CCC-SLP, has been a Speech-Language Pathologist since 2009. She began her career at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) by providing intensive, evidence-based aphasia treatment to veterans and active duty service members from across the United States through the Program for Intensive Aphasia Treatment & Education (PIRATE). Since that time, she has provided countless hours of aphasia assessment and intervention services to patients with a wide range of aphasia severities. During her time with PIRATE, she developed the clinical processes for in-person and remote candidacy evaluations and follow-up using tele-practice technology. She is a recipient of the 2012 Association of Veteran Affairs Speech Language Pathologists (AVASLP) Outstanding Achievement Award for her work with the PIRATE Clinical Team and co-authored a peer-reviewed manuscript in 2014 that details the PIRATE program’s description, rationale, clinical processes, and outcomes.

Dr. Patrick J. Doyle is a Speech Language Pathologist whose clinical and research work is focused on the rehabilitation of language processing disorders following brain injury. He is an Associate Professor of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh, a Fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association, and has received the Honors of the Association of VA Speech Language Pathologists. Dr. Doyle previously served as a Visiting Scientist in the Assessment, Classification and Epidemiology Unit of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland where he collaborated on the revision of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF). He is the developer of the Burden of Stroke Scale (BOSS) and the Founding Director of the Program for Intensive Residential Aphasia Treatment & Education (PIRATE).

https://www.pittsburgh.va.gov/PIRATE/index.asp