Welcome to the Find Your Voice Lab

Director Information: Anusha Sundarrajan

Anusha Sundarrajan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Faculty Advisor, Co-Investigator) received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology in India. She earned her Ph.D. in Speech Language Pathology and a minor in Gerontology at Purdue University in 2016. Her research interests center around understanding the physiology of aging voice using aerodynamic and acoustic measures. She is specifically interested in understanding how the healthy young and old larynx responds to the effects of unhealthy, and the excessive use of the laryngeal mechanism. She has extensive experience collecting and analyzing voice measurements in young and older adult population. After joining SFSU’s Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in Spring 2019, Dr. Sundarrajan expanded her interests and started the first gender-affirming voice clinic to serve the student community on campus. She has attended workshops and continued education courses to gain knowledge in this area. This includes volunteer training at one of the community centers, St James Infirmary to learn about safety procedures and policies.