004. The One Where Advocating For You Pays Off featuring Alyssa Marsellos Mendoza

This episode features Alyssa Marsellos Mendoza, she is a bilingual SLP out of Miami, Florida. Alyssa, is a few years out of grad school and currently works in an outpatient setting with adults and children. In this episode, she shares thoughts regarding multiculturalism at the university level and how it is implemented, and she provides extremely thoughtful insight about preparing to apply to graduate school and using resources to better understand how to improve your second time around application! She also tells us a bit about how she transitioned into an outpatient medical setting and found that even though there was a lot of obstacles, she persevered and is in an incredible position now in her ideal setting so quickly out of graduate school. As discussed in the episode, here is the link to ASHA's Multicultural Affairs page, on this page you can find resources about schools with Multicultural Emphasis, Bilingual Emphasis, HBCU's and Hispanic serving. Just scroll down to Information for Students. You can reach Alyssa anytime at [email protected] or follow her on instagram @alyssa_marshmellow Follow us on instagram @speechingitreal Follow your host, Christy Ubieta @christymarieu Email anytime with questions, general comments, or guest suggestions at [email protected]