Oneida is a first generation, Chinese American genderqueer Speech Language Pathologist in San Francisco. They worked in home health and public schools throughout the Bay Area for the past 15 years.  They started their private practice, Bay Area OUTspoken Speech Services to work with toddlers and assist friends and community members in seeking gender affirming voice care. Currently, they work at San Francisco State University supervising the Voice Clinic, the Gender Health Clinic in Santa Clara, and the Regional Center with bilingual early intervention. Additionally, they serve on the California Speech and Hearing Association (CSHA) Committee of Diversity and Inclusion. They love to dance, explore, tinker with gadgets, and enjoy deep meaningful and playful connections.

AC is a world-renowned expert in gender-affirming voice and neurodiversity-affirming practices. He has numerous publications across books, journals and magazines. AC is an international educator, frequently speaking at continuing education conferences across North America and beyond in the topics of trauma-informed, patient-centered care, neurodiversity, cultural humility and clinical-relationship dynamics. He mentors SLP students and younger clinicians, with the goal of "being the person he needed" when he first started in the field. As a founding member of Trans Voice Initiative (TVI), AC's dedication to educating a new generation of clinicians is continually evident through his ongoing efforts to train new practitioners in gender-affirming voice care, through a lens that is affirming to all. AC is the topic chair for Voice and Upper Airway for the ASHA 2026 Convention, a member of the LGBTQIA+ Caucus of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (L’GASP of ASHA) and is licensed in the USA, Australia and Canada.

Cristel is a speech-language pathology clinical fellow based in Massachusetts, born and raised in Singapore. They are an admin member of the Trans Voice Initiative. He is also a member of WPATH, and volunteers as a project assistant with the Vocal Congruence Project. Outside of their GAV work at Prismatic Speech, Cristel works at a pediatric outpatient clinic seeing kiddos with diverse language and communication profiles. Their clinical interests reside in the intersections between identity, neurodivergence, and language ideology. In most online meetings, she can be identified by her unwavering dedication to having Winnie the Pooh's house as the virtual background.

Ruchi is an NCVS Trained Vocologist and a leading voice-specialized speech-language pathologist and voice coach in the area of gender-affirming voice using neuro-affirming practices. In addition to co-authoring multiple chapters in the areas of gender-affirming voice and 2SLGBTQIA+ care in neurogenic populations, they mentor, educate and present frequently across the United States on voice care and culturally responsive practices. She serves on the advisory board for Marymount University’s premier speech-language pathology hybrid program. In addition, he is a co-founder of Trans Voice Initiative (TVI), an organization dedicated to the training of trans and gender diverse (TGD) students and practitioners in the area of gender-affirming voice. They serve as parliamentarian for the LGBTQIA+ Caucus of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (L’GASP of ASHA) and board member for the Disability Caucus of ASHA. She is CEO and speech-language pathologist at Kapila Voice and Speech Services, Professional Corporation in Fairview, CA

Nora is a Pittsburgh-based speech-language pathologist specializing in voice and upper airway disorders, and gender-affirming voice and communication services. She is the co-founder of the Vocal Congruence Project, a collection of free resources for anyone seeking an affirming voice. She is a member of WPATH, TPATH, and ASHA. Nora is also the Director of Camp Lilac, a summer camp for trans and gender diverse teens.

Ry grew up singing and performing in choral groups and theater companies. They also had classical voice training while in high school. When it came time to attend college, they made the decision to pursue being a speech-language pathologist so that they could help performers who had voice disorders. They fulfilled that dream and graduated from their alma mater, Stockton University, in southern New Jersey, with their Masters in Communication Sciences and Disorders in May 2019. They have previously received their Bachelors of Science and a minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies from Stockton in 2017. Entering into graduate school, they made an important discovery about their own gender identity being gender nonbinary and transgender. They first began treating voice disorders and providing gender affirmative voice in graduate school in their school’s onsite clinic. They have interned and worked in schools, outpatient rehabs, and in the home settings providing early intervention services. Now, they live in New York City and work with Prismatic Speech Services to provide gender affirmative voice therapy across New York and New Jersey state via teletherapy.

Crys is a nonbinary SLP and vocalist based in New York City. They currently practice in a home health setting and as a contractor for Prismatic Speech providing gender affirming voice care. Centered in zir clinical practice is client self determination, with a focus on long term improvements and change. Crysta is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist(CBIS), integrating their musical background to enrich their cognitive rehabilitative services. She is particularly interested in the effects of group singing on well-being. Ze is passionate about mentorship in the field, co-organizing the Mutual Education Partnership Program with SLPs of Color LA in 2020. Crys has been an organizing member of Trans Voice Initiative since 2021 and was an invited speaker at Mass Eye and Ear with TVI in April 2025; they are currently a member of the administrative committee. He can be found singing and planning socials for their all trans/gender expansive community chorale, TRANScend. She is also a current board member (Board Chair 2023, 2024) for QORDS (Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer), a youth summer music camp for LGBTQ+ youth and children of LGBTQ+ adults in the South, where they are always encouraging queer youth to make weird art!

Becks von Duering is the owner of Affirming Voice & Communication PLLC. Their private practice was created to expand voice and communication services by making services easier to access in Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. They have extensive experience working in education & as a Speech Pathologist in an outpatient and acute care setting for Kaiser Permanente of Washington, where they were Clinical Lead for over 13 years and where they drove institutional changes toward safer and more affirming healthcare. They are a volunteer member of Trans Voice Initiative and they are a SOC 8 Certified Mentor for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Becks’ specialties include voice and upper airway management, gender affirming voice modification, perioperative surgical voice care, breathing pattern disorders, Parkinson’s Voice, cognitive communication disorders, and swallowing/feeding disorders. Becks is a public speaker, clinical trainer, and serves as a professional consultant on best practices in gender affirming voice care provision.