Conference Faculty

Sandy Capps is the Administrator for the North Carolina Board of Examiners for SLP & AUD and have been with the Board for 33 years.

Ellen Fagan, ASHA’s Director of Continuing Education, leads a 17-person team which manages standards for CE providers, CE course review, and the ACE program.

Gregg Givens is Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University and is currently a member of the North Carolina Board of Examiners and President –elect of the NCSB.

Amy Goldman is past Chair of the Pennsylvania licensure board, co-executive director of the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University in Pennsylvania and is NCSB Secretary. She is also past Chair of the steering committee for ASHA’s SIG 12, AAC and the current President-Elect of the PA Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Alison Grimes is the Director of Audiology and Newborn Hearing Screening at UCLA Health. She is currently the Chair of the Speech Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board, California. She is a Past-President of the American Academy of Audiology.

Nahale Freeland Kalfas has served as counsel for the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists for 7 years. Her practice before the Board includes general legal advice on Board matters, prosecution and rule and legislative drafting.

Jolie Jones is the Executive Director for the Louisiana Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, as well as the Louisiana Board of Examiners in Dietetics and Nutrition.

Patty Nesbitt has been Administrative Services Manager for the WV Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology since 2008. She thoroughly enjoys the "different hats" required for the multi-faceted position.

Melissa Passe has worked at Truman State University for the past 22 years. She is currently the chair for the Council for Clinical Certification in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Kerri Phillips is Professor and Program Director for SLP in the Department of Speech at Louisiana Tech University. She is former Vice-Chair of the Louisiana licensure board. Currently she is the President-Elect for NCSB, ASHA SLP-AC for LA, and a member of ASHA CEB.

Kathy Pruner has worked at ETS for 18 years. In her current role as a Praxis Client Relations Director, she provides assistance to ASHA, State departments of education, State boards of Audiology/SLP, institutions of higher education and candidates. Kathy has an M.B.A. from LaSalle University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Penn State University.

Theresa H. Rodgers, MA, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, is an SLP based in the Metro Baton Rouge area. She served as ASHA’s 2012-2014 VP for Government Relations and Public Policy, is a member of ASHA’s Board of Ethics, and the Louisiana licensure board. Theresa is a former President of NCSB, CSAP, and LSHA.

Sherry Sancibrian, an ASHA Fellow, is Professor and Program Director in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Texas Tech University HSC. She is a former Presiding Officer of the Texas licensure board, former President of TSHA, and current President of NCSB.

Ayn Stehr is a lobbyist and private practice attorney concentrating in family law as well as judicial and law enforcement training. She has served as the attorney for the Louisiana licensure board since 1992. She was the recipient of the Honors of NCSB in 2009 and the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Career Public Interest Award in 2011.

Glenn M. Waguespack, an ASHA Fellow and NCSB Past-President, is a private practice audiologist in Louisiana. He is a former CEB Chair, former CAA Chair, and former state association President. He is a current member of the Louisiana licensure board, a member of the ASHA Board of Ethics, a former member of ASHA’s CFCC, and is a CAA site visitor.