Meet the HELD Research Team
Undergraduate Research Students
The Team
2023 - 2024
Our Research Center
The HELD Lab is dedicated to pursuing research on speech and language communication and auditory processing/hearing by connecting these ideas with culture and diversity. To do so, our HELD Research lab team is passionate about growing our knowledge in these areas in order to be able to teach the community ways to embrace their diversity and benefit the speech, language, and hearing community.
Dr. Alliete Alfano
Lab Director
Assistant Professor, FIU
Jannabel Ameen
Lab Coordinator
MS - SLP, FIU
Kaitlyn Saari
Graduate Research Assistant
Olivia Rhoads
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Andrea Pujol
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Lisabeth Castellanos
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Nicole Perez
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Karson Biggs
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Maryan Loiza Betancourt
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Alessandra Ottley
Research Assistant
Medical Student, NSU
Thaiz Pulido
Graduate Research Assistant
MS - SLP, FIU
Aleksandra Chaparro Bezzubikoff
Research Assistant