Emma Schmudlach majored in speech and hearing science with a certificate in disability studies when she was a student here at UIowa, and is currently a speech-language pathology graduate student at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Dr. Jake Michaelson is a Roy J. Carver professor in psychiatry and neuroscience and the division director of computational and molecular psychiatry at the University of Iowa. His lab studies the effect of genetic variations on the development of the brain, with specific applications in autism and language. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in biological engineering at Utah State University before completing his PhD in computational biology at the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany in 2010.