Meet the Coordinators
Coordinators are leadership positions in the Trans Voice Initiative (TVI). These active members have taken on additional responsibilities to help develop TVI and its educational offerings. Read more about the fine folks who are leading TVI this year below!

Tallulah Breslin, MS, CCC-SLP
(she/they)
Education Coordinator
Tallulah is a certified speech-language pathologist specialized in gender affirming voice care (GAVC) and is licensed in Texas, Michigan, and Kansas. They are a certified provider of WPATH Standards of Care 8, a WPATH Voice and Communication Mentor, founder of the Gender Voice Mastermind, and trains voice clinicians internationally to provide GAVC. Tallulah is a committed advocate for the TGD community, and collaborates with interdisciplinary professionals to conduct research into best practices in GAVC and chondrolaryngoplasty. In 2020 they founded Harmonic Speech, a multi-state group practice specialized in GAVC. In 2021 they founded Mantra Voice, which provides low- and no-cost gender affirming voice coaching worldwide. In addition to voice work, Tallulah enjoys gardening, leathercraft, and her many adorable munchkin cats.

Kevin Dorman, MS, CCC-SLP
(they/them)
Operations Coordinator
Kevin is a non-binary speech-language pathologist who has been providing primarily gender-affirming voice work (GAVW) to clients since 2016 through their private practice, Prismatic Speech Services. They are a founding member of TVI, and have been educating other providers about GAVW since 2018 via a number of avenues: monthly roundtables via the “Gender Spectrum Voice & Communication” Facebook group; monthly “TVI Fridays” events through TVI itself; multiple lectures at ASHA conventions and trans health specific events around the country; and four two-day intensive workshops hosted by CU Denver’s Anschutz Medical Campus and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute from 2019-2025. Kevin is also a tongue cancer survivor, having been diagnosed in November 2024. Their interests outside of TVI include: voice acting, tabletop roleplay, surviving cancer

Londyn Edwards, MS, CCC-SLP
(she/they)
Financial Coordinator
Londyn is a speech-language pathologist and the current financial coordinator for the Trans Voice Initiative. She primarily works in outpatient pediatrics serving children across ages, with experience in voice, language, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and additional experience in gender affirming voice work. Based in San Francisco, Londyn brings a warm,collaborative, and affirming approach, supporting clients in developing voices that feel authentic and sustainable. Outside of work, she enjoys drawing, watching Star Trek, and playing board and card collaborative, and affirming approach, supporting clients in developing voices that feel authentic and sustainable. Outside of work, she enjoys drawing, watching Star Trek, and playing board and card games. You can learn more about her adventures in pediatric speech at @youaremysonnenschein.
Active Members
Active members of TVI are expected to attend regular TVI meetings and contribute to the development of TVI's offerings under the direction of the Coordinators.

Oneida Chi, MS, CCC-SLP
(they/them)
Education Committee
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 Goldberg, PhD, CCC-SLP
(he/him)
Education Committee
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 Ho, MS, CF-SLP
(any pronouns)
Operations Committee
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 Kapila, MS, CCC-SLP
(any pronouns)
Operations Committee
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 Mahon, MS, CCC-SLP
(she/her)
Operations Committee
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 Pilchman, MS, CCC-SLP
(they/them)
Operations Committee
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/ta Song, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIS
(any/keoi)
Operations Committee
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, MS, CCC-SLP
(they/them)
Education Committee
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.
