The Bold SLP Podcast The Bold SLP Collective

Jackie Rodriguez and Julisa Chrysafi join us to discuss the world of Bilingual Med SLPs. They share their journeys, their advice for futures SLPs, and their passion for ethical treatment of all patients but especially patients who are from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We touch on how the lack of representation in our field impacts outcomes for patients and why advocacy and health literacy are such a big part of what they do as Bilingual Med SLPs.

This episode features an interview with Raelen Watkins, B.S.Ed., Naomi Doerr-Garcia, Dr. Nina Santus, Ph.D., CCC/SLP, from the University of Georgia's undergraduate student organization: Minorities in Communication Sciences & Disorders (M-CMSD). Raelen created the group with the support of UGA CMSD faculty with the goal of creating a supportive community for minority students, engaging in advocacy related to DEI, and hosting recruitment activities that target diverse populations of young adults to bring more diversity in newer classes of SLPs and audiologists. You'll enjoy listening to their mission and what they've accomplished so far as well as what's on the horizon.

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We're joined on this episode by Elaine Nguyen, MS, CCC-SLP (she/her) who came to the podcast to share with us her experience as a first-gen Vietnamese American SLP. She takes us all the way through her journey from undergrad to SLP, retelling stories of moments of cultural mismatch as well as explaining the invisible load of Asian American students & challenges that come along with that load. We also touch on her presence on social media, as she is the creator behind the IG account Embracing Wholeness, a space where she centers mental health for SLPs, women, and mothers.

On this episode we meet Symoné Pinedo, Ed. S. and chat all about her journey as a Bilingual & Bicultural school psychologist. Sym practices as a school psychologist in California and describes her work as meaningful for herself, her family, and also her community. The field of school psychology, like the field of SLP, is not a very racially, ethnically, or linguistically diverse field so meeting a Latina Bilingual School Psych was such a privilege - especially as there are so many parallels between the two fields. You can find Sym on Instagram and Tiktok @acurlyhairedschoolpsych to learn more about her advocacy and her work.

On this episode we talk about how we managed to pay for grad school - spoiler alert: we all took out student loans… but we each have different relationships with our debt and different strategies. We discuss our individual journeys with personal finances and student debt in the hopes to answer your questions and breakdown the experience for other first generation students out there.

On this episode we are joined by Michelle Posner, M.S. CCC-SLP - founder of BilingualSLP LLC. Michelle has served monolingual and bilingual children and their families since 2006. She is an advocate for linguistic diversity, ethical practices when serving multilingual & multicultural individuals, and is passionate about growing cultural humility in our field. Michelle shares her story which begins with breaking down stereotypes as a daughter of Jewish Mexican immigrants, she goes through the impact linguistic oppression in the U.S. had on her and her family, and ends with her hope for our field: that we will all lift each other up as we climb in a field that is 92% white and monolingual.